Model comparison
Grok 4.1 vs Mistral Medium
Grok 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4.1 scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral Medium in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok 4.1 leads 39.5 to 25.0.
- Mistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Grok 4.1 | Mistral Medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 41.5 | 36.3 |
| Released | 2025-11-17 | 2023-12-11 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $7.50 |
| Results tracked | 19 | 36 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Grok 4.1: 33.7 (#253), Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1445 | 1434 |
| FrontierCode | — | 8% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1214 | — |
| SciCode | — | 40.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.7% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 763.98 |
Agentic & Tool Use Grok 4.1 leads
Grok 4.1: 34.1 (#49), Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.7% |
| Cybench | 39% | — |
Reasoning Grok 4.1 leads
Grok 4.1: 29.5 (#91), Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1435 | 1426 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 50% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 75.5% |
| LMCA | — | 26.1% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 26.9% |
Math Grok 4.1 leads
Grok 4.1: 38.9 (#120), Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1422 | 1408 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 32.2% |
| ProofBench | — | 9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 81.6% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |
Knowledge Grok 4.1 leads
Grok 4.1: 39.5 (#133), Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1417 | 1408 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 59.5% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 4.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 22.7% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Grok 4.1: —, Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1172 |
Multilingual Grok 4.1 leads
Grok 4.1: 53.4 (#68), Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1425 | 1408 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1465 | 1447 |
| LMArena French | 1448 | 1459 |
| LMArena German | 1446 | 1432 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1397 | 1378 |
| LMArena Korean | 1407 | 1380 |
| LMArena Russian | 1434 | 1411 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1438 | 1433 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Grok 4.1: 73.8 (#111), Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1400 | 1398 |
Long Context Too close to call
Grok 4.1: 43.2 (#100), Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1416 | 1406 |
Writing & Preference Grok 4.1 leads
Grok 4.1: 62.4 (#75), Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1437 | 1424 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1411 | 1391 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1437 | 1418 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 77.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok 4.1 better than Mistral Medium?
Grok 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.
Is Grok 4.1 or Mistral Medium better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (33.7 vs 34.2); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Grok 4.1 and Mistral Medium share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4.1 has 19 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.