Model comparison

Grok 4.6 vs Mistral Large

Grok 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.9 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4.6 xAI

56.9

Rank #21 Confirmed

Mistral Large Mistral AI

31.9

Rank #263 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4.6 scores higher in 9 categories and Mistral Large in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Grok 4.6 leads 67.0 to 18.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 99.2% for Grok 4.6 and 8.5% for Mistral Large.
  • Both cost about the same: $2 input and $6 output per million tokens.
  • Grok 4.6 accepts more context: 500K tokens versus 131K.
  • Mistral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4.6 and Mistral Large specifications
Grok 4.6Mistral Large
ProviderxAIMistral AI
Noometry Index56.931.9
Released2026-08-122024-02-26
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window500K131K
Max output500K16K
Input $ / M tokens$2$2
Output $ / M tokens$6$6
Results tracked4951

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4.6 leads

Grok 4.6: 58.5 (#16), Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Mistral Large
SciCode56.5%36.2%
LMArena Coding14651277
ALE-Bench1,508264.7
DeepSWE67.5%—
FrontierCode48%—
CursorBench41.4%—
LMArena WebDev1617—
FrontierSWE25.3%—
WeirdML67.3%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—30%
LiveBench Coding—47.1%
BigCodeBench Complete—38.3%
HumanEval+—62.2%
MBPP+—59.5%

Agentic & Tool Use Grok 4.6 leads

Grok 4.6: 39.4 (#27), Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Mistral Large
APEX-Agents65.3%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—38.4%
GDP.pdf17.2%—
Vending-Bench 29,047—

Reasoning Grok 4.6 leads

Grok 4.6: 61.4 (#20), Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Mistral Large
SimpleBench75.9%22.5%
CritPt19.7%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14471257
DTBench97.3%65.1%
LMCA48.5%16.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index156.44128.52
ARC-AGI-267.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)80%—
ARC-AGI-187.5%—
Chess Puzzles40%—
EBR-Bench30.5%—
LiveBench Reasoning—43.5%
Mystery Game Puzzles34%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—50.1%
ForecastBench—57.1
LiveBench—48.4%

Math Grok 4.6 leads

Grok 4.6: 67.0 (#24), Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Mistral Large
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202599.2%8.5%
LMArena Math14231262
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)66%—
FrontierMath Tier 431.7%—
ProofBench51%—
Omni-MATH—28.1%
LiveBench Math—42.5%
MATH Level 5—50.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.3%

Knowledge Grok 4.6 leads

Grok 4.6: 63.3 (#20), Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Mistral Large
GPQA Diamond94%51.3%
LMArena Expert14671232
SimpleQA Verified49.3%—
MMLU-Pro—59.9%
Confabulations—21.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—4.5%
GPQA (HELM)—43.5%
MMLU—80%

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 43.6 (#23), Mistral Large: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Mistral Large
LMArena Vision1263—
Blueprint-Bench 233.2%—
Furniture Assembly40%—
LMArena Document1452—

Multilingual Grok 4.6 leads

Grok 4.6: 53.0 (#74), Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Mistral Large
LMArena Non-English14201237
LMArena Chinese14801240
LMArena French14611325
LMArena German14311254
LMArena Japanese13761188
LMArena Korean13971202
LMArena Russian14221257
LMArena Spanish14041268

Instruction Following Grok 4.6 leads

Grok 4.6: 75.4 (#63), Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Mistral Large
LMArena Instruction Following14311249
LiveBench Instruction Following—67.9%
IFEval—87.7%

Long Context Grok 4.6 leads

Grok 4.6: 44.5 (#66), Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Mistral Large
LMArena Longer Query14541261

Writing & Preference Grok 4.6 leads

Grok 4.6: 62.3 (#80), Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Mistral Large
LMArena Text14281266
LMArena Creative Writing14281243
LMArena Multi-Turn14251260
Short-Story Creative Writing—69%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—985
WildBench—80.1%
LiveBench Language—39.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4.6 better than Mistral Large?

Grok 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.9 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Grok 4.6 or Mistral Large?

Mistral Large is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; Grok 4.6 lists at $2 and $6.

Is Grok 4.6 or Mistral Large better for coding?

Grok 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.5 versus 34.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Grok 4.6 does, with 500K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4.6 and Mistral Large share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4.6 has 49 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large has 51.

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