Model comparison
Grok 4 Fast vs Mistral Small 3.2
Grok 4 Fast is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 Fast scores higher in 4 categories and Mistral Small 3.2 in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Grok 4 Fast leads 60.0 to 45.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 66.1% for Grok 4 Fast and 40.4% for Mistral Small 3.2.
- Mistral Small 3.2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Grok 4 Fast | Mistral Small 3.2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 39.4 | 31.2 |
| Released | 2025-09-19 | 2025-06-20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 256K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.0938 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Results tracked | 30 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Grok 4 Fast: 32.5 (#271), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1159 | — |
| WeirdML | 42.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1429 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Grok 4 Fast: 29.5 (#86), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| τ²-bench Banking | 15.7% | — |
| Cybench | 30% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1171 | — |
Reasoning Grok 4 Fast leads
Grok 4 Fast: 22.2 (#201), Mistral Small 3.2: 18.1 (#287)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 66.1% | 40.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 144.2 | 131.74 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 5.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 48.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1412 | — |
| DTBench | 82.7% | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.5 | — |
Math Grok 4 Fast leads
Grok 4 Fast: 38.9 (#123), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.3 (#260)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 30.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1419 | — |
Knowledge Grok 4 Fast leads
Grok 4 Fast: 32.0 (#214), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.7 (#256)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 49.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 19.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1411 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Grok 4 Fast: 51.3 (#111), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1396 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1457 | — |
| LMArena French | 1431 | — |
| LMArena German | 1383 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1352 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1357 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1389 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1415 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Grok 4 Fast: 73.2 (#121), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1387 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Grok 4 Fast: 63.2 (#3), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 94.4% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1415 | — |
Writing & Preference Grok 4 Fast leads
Grok 4 Fast: 60.0 (#102), Mistral Small 3.2: 45.0 (#224)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 Fast | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1407 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1387 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1255 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1414 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok 4 Fast better than Mistral Small 3.2?
Grok 4 Fast is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Grok 4 Fast and Mistral Small 3.2 share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 Fast has 30 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.