Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) vs Mistral 7B

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.6 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 6.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)'s lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) xAI

48.6

Rank #54 Confirmed

Mistral 7B Mistral AI

23.0

Rank #351 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) leads 52.8 to 7.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 92.2% for Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) and 0.3% for Mistral 7B.
  • Mistral 7B is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $1.25 / $2.50 for Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning).
  • Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 8K.
  • Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)Mistral 7B
ProviderxAIMistral AI
Noometry Index48.623.0
Released2026-02-172023-09-27
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M8K
Max output30K8K
Input $ / M tokens$1.25$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$0.25
Results tracked4637

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) leads

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 42.1 (#112), Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

BenchmarkGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)Mistral 7B
LMArena Coding14591082
LMArena WebDev1375—
WeirdML52.3%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—19.5%
BigCodeBench Complete—27.3%
ALE-Bench1,150—
HumanEval+—36%
MBPP+—42.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 34.4 (#46), Mistral 7B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)Mistral 7B
Terminal-Bench57.3%—
τ²-bench Banking18%—
LMArena Search1189—
Vending-Bench 24,663—

Reasoning Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) leads

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 52.3 (#32), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

BenchmarkGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)Mistral 7B
Chess Puzzles24%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14511067
DTBench90.1%42.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index151.98112.21
ARC-AGI-265.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark75%—
NYT Connections (extended)85.4%—
ARC-AGI-189.5%—
Thematic Generalization63.8%—
LMCA38.7%—
Adversarial NLI—47.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—56.1%
ForecastBench61.4—
HellaSwag—81%
PIQA—83%
WinoGrande—75.3%

Math Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) leads

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 48.2 (#65), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

BenchmarkGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)Mistral 7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202592.2%0.3%
LMArena Math14551085
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)44.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 417.1%—
ProofBench14%—
MATH Level 5—3.7%
GSM8K—54.4%

Knowledge Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) leads

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 52.8 (#60), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

BenchmarkGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)Mistral 7B
GPQA Diamond89.3%15.2%
LMArena Expert14391036
SimpleQA Verified30.2%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.6%
BoolQ—87.4%
MMLU—62.5%
OpenBookQA—79.8%
TriviaQA—75.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 33.3 (#98), Mistral 7B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)Mistral 7B
LMArena Vision1263—
Blueprint-Bench 20%—
LMArena Document1416—

Multilingual Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) leads

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 54.5 (#40), Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

BenchmarkGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)Mistral 7B
LMArena Non-English14411012
LMArena Chinese14811009
LMArena French14761037
LMArena German1465987
LMArena Japanese1449878
LMArena Russian14581018
LMArena Spanish14431026
LMArena Korean1417—

Instruction Following Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) leads

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 74.8 (#83), Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

BenchmarkGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)Mistral 7B
LMArena Instruction Following14201060

Long Context Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) leads

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 45.5 (#34), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

BenchmarkGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)Mistral 7B
LMArena Longer Query14371060
CL-bench22.2%—
CL-bench Life11.9%—

Writing & Preference Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) leads

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 65.7 (#44), Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

BenchmarkGrok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)Mistral 7B
LMArena Text14511090
LMArena Creative Writing14381068
LMArena Multi-Turn14561062
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1574—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) better than Mistral 7B?

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.6 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index. Mistral 7B costs 6.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)'s lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) or Mistral 7B?

Mistral 7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) lists at $1.25 and $2.50.

Is Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) or Mistral 7B better for coding?

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.1 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) does, with 1M tokens against 8K.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) and Mistral 7B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) has 46 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.

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