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Model comparison

Grok 4 vs Magistral Medium

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Magistral Medium Mistral AI

35.2

Rank #227 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 8 categories and Magistral Medium in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 4 leads 36.7 to 8.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 66.7% for Grok 4 and 6.1% for Magistral Medium.
  • Magistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4Magistral Medium
ProviderxAIMistral AI
Noometry Index48.135.2
Released2025-07-092025-03-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$5
Results tracked4822

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)

BenchmarkGrok 4Magistral Medium
LMArena Coding14081319
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
SciCode—39.2%
WeirdML45.7%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Magistral Medium: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Magistral Medium
Terminal-Bench27.2%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard63%—
GDPval21.1%—
Cybench43%—
DeepResearch Bench47.3%—
BALROG43.6%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons66.6%—

Reasoning Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 36.7 (#65), Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)

BenchmarkGrok 4Magistral Medium
ARC-AGI-216%0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%16.2%
ARC-AGI-166.7%6.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts14091267
SimpleBench60.5%—
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles28%—
Epoch Capabilities Index146.44—
ForecastBench60.9—

Math Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)

BenchmarkGrok 4Magistral Medium
LMArena Math14221250
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%—
Omni-MATH60.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)

BenchmarkGrok 4Magistral Medium
LMArena Expert14151223
GPQA Diamond87%—
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Magistral Medium: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Magistral Medium
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench45%—

Multilingual Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)

BenchmarkGrok 4Magistral Medium
LMArena Non-English14031232
LMArena Chinese14271227
LMArena French14181267
LMArena German14291248
LMArena Japanese13941175
LMArena Korean13771125
LMArena Russian14101224
LMArena Spanish14201271

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)

BenchmarkGrok 4Magistral Medium
LMArena Instruction Following13871254
IFEval94.9%—

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)

BenchmarkGrok 4Magistral Medium
LMArena Longer Query14091295
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—

Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)

BenchmarkGrok 4Magistral Medium
LMArena Text14111255
LMArena Creative Writing13971245
LMArena Multi-Turn14161275
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%—
WildBench79.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than Magistral Medium?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 35.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 or Magistral Medium better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 39.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Magistral Medium share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.

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