Model comparison

Grok 4.7 vs Mistral Medium 3.5

Grok 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 53.1 to 40.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4.7 xAI

53.1

Rank #37 Confirmed

Mistral Medium 3.5 Mistral AI

40.2

Rank #152 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4.7 scores higher in 5 categories and Mistral Medium 3.5 in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 4.7 leads 49.1 to 17.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 76.8% for Grok 4.7 and 12.9% for Mistral Medium 3.5.
  • Both cost about the same: $2 input and $6 output per million tokens.
  • Grok 4.7 accepts more context: 500K tokens versus 262K.
  • Mistral Medium 3.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4.7 and Mistral Medium 3.5 specifications
Grok 4.7Mistral Medium 3.5
ProviderxAIMistral AI
Noometry Index53.140.2
Released2026-09-21—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window500K262K
Max output500K210K
Input $ / M tokens$2$1.50
Output $ / M tokens$6$7.50
Results tracked3922

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4.7 leads

Grok 4.7: 58.0 (#18), Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.0 (#213)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.7Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena WebDev16391264
LMArena Coding14271461
FrontierCode47.6%—
CursorBench46.3%—
FrontierSWE29.5%—
SciCode57.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4.7: 36.7 (#37), Mistral Medium 3.5: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.7Mistral Medium 3.5
APEX-Agents54.6%—
GDP.pdf22.8%—
Vending-Bench 210,537—

Reasoning Grok 4.7 leads

Grok 4.7: 49.1 (#40), Mistral Medium 3.5: 17.3 (#295)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.7Mistral Medium 3.5
NYT Connections (extended)76.8%12.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts14131436
Epoch Capabilities Index153.53141.35
Kagi LLM Benchmark—41.4%
CritPt18%—
Chess Puzzles38%—
Mystery Game Puzzles29%—
DTBench96%—
LMCA49.4%—

Math Grok 4.7 leads

Grok 4.7: 57.8 (#39), Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.7Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Math14071431
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)53%—
FrontierMath Tier 417.1%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.1%—
ProofBench34%—

Knowledge Grok 4.7 leads

Grok 4.7: 62.8 (#22), Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.7Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Expert14221432
GPQA Diamond92.7%—
SimpleQA Verified56%—

Multimodal Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Grok 4.7: 35.5 (#87), Mistral Medium 3.5: 38.3 (#65)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.7Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Vision12281223
Blueprint-Bench 232.5%—
Furniture Assembly20.8%—

Multilingual Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Grok 4.7: 50.8 (#116), Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.7Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Non-English13891404
LMArena Chinese14551442
LMArena French14551448
LMArena Russian13971395
LMArena Spanish14001409
LMArena German—1451
LMArena Korean—1385

Instruction Following Too close to call

Grok 4.7: 74.1 (#105), Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.6 (#90)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.7Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Instruction Following14041415

Long Context Too close to call

Grok 4.7: 43.1 (#104), Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.7Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Longer Query14131415

Writing & Preference Grok 4.7 leads

Grok 4.7: 70.0 (#24), Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.7Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text13991421
LMArena Creative Writing13911374
LMArena Multi-Turn13931423
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2007—
EQ-Bench 4—993

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4.7 better than Mistral Medium 3.5?

Grok 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 53.1 to 40.2 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Grok 4.7 or Mistral Medium 3.5?

Mistral Medium 3.5 is cheaper. It lists at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens; Grok 4.7 lists at $2 and $6.

Is Grok 4.7 or Mistral Medium 3.5 better for coding?

Grok 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.0 versus 36.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Grok 4.7 does, with 500K tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4.7 and Mistral Medium 3.5 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4.7 has 39 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22.

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