Model comparison
Grok 4.1 vs Mixtral 8x7B
Grok 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 27.1 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 Mixtral 8x7B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok 4.1 leads 39.5 to 11.0.
- Mixtral 8x7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Grok 4.1 | Mixtral 8x7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 41.5 | 27.1 |
| Released | 2025-11-17 | 2023-12-11 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 32K |
| Max output | — | 32K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 19 | 38 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Grok 4.1: 33.7 (#253), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1445 | 1126 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1214 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 39.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 49.7% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Grok 4.1: 34.1 (#49), Mixtral 8x7B: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 39% | — |
Reasoning Grok 4.1 leads
Grok 4.1: 29.5 (#91), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1435 | 1115 |
| DTBench | — | 49.6% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.47 |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
| HellaSwag | — | 86.7% |
| PIQA | — | 83.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 77.2% |
Math Grok 4.1 leads
Grok 4.1: 38.9 (#120), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1422 | 1147 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 10.5% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 10% |
| GSM8K | — | 74.4% |
Knowledge Grok 4.1 leads
Grok 4.1: 39.5 (#133), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1417 | 1088 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 30.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 33.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 29.6% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 87.3% |
| MMLU | — | 70.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 85.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 82.2% |
Multilingual Grok 4.1 leads
Grok 4.1: 53.4 (#68), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1425 | 1077 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1465 | 1055 |
| LMArena French | 1448 | 1166 |
| LMArena German | 1446 | 1114 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1397 | 931 |
| LMArena Korean | 1407 | 968 |
| LMArena Russian | 1434 | 1090 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1438 | 1111 |
Instruction Following Grok 4.1 leads
Grok 4.1: 73.8 (#111), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1400 | 1109 |
| IFEval | — | 57.5% |
Long Context Grok 4.1 leads
Grok 4.1: 43.2 (#100), Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1416 | 1103 |
Writing & Preference Grok 4.1 leads
Grok 4.1: 62.4 (#75), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)
| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1437 | 1132 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1411 | 1109 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1437 | 1115 |
| WildBench | — | 67.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok 4.1 better than Mixtral 8x7B?
Grok 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Grok 4.1 or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (33.7 vs 32.8); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Grok 4.1 and Mixtral 8x7B share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4.1 has 19 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.