Model comparison
Grok 4 vs Mistral
Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok 4 leads 53.8 to 16.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 85.1% for Grok 4 and 27.7% for Mistral.
Side by side
| Grok 4 | Mistral | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 48.1 | 29.9 |
| Released | 2025-07-09 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 48 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Grok 4 leads
Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Mistral: 33.8 (#250)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1408 | 1162 |
| Aider Polyglot | 79.6% | — |
| WeirdML | 45.7% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Mistral: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 27.2% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 63% | — |
| GDPval | 21.1% | — |
| Cybench | 43% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 47.3% | — |
| BALROG | 43.6% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1142 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 66.6% | — |
Reasoning Grok 4 leads
Grok 4: 36.7 (#65), Mistral: 22.2 (#200)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1409 | 1149 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 16% | — |
| SimpleBench | 60.5% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 73.6% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 66.7% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 28% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 146.44 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.9 | — |
Math Grok 4 leads
Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), Mistral: 22.3 (#278)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 60.3% | 7.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1422 | 1180 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 84% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 19.7% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 2.1% | — |
Knowledge Grok 4 leads
Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), Mistral: 16.6 (#288)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 85.1% | 27.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 72.7% | 30.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1415 | 1125 |
| GPQA Diamond | 87% | — |
| Confabulations | 12.4% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Mistral: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1210 | — |
| GeoBench | 45% | — |
Multilingual Grok 4 leads
Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Mistral: 32.8 (#254)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1403 | 1129 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1427 | 1109 |
| LMArena French | 1418 | 1180 |
| LMArena German | 1429 | 1155 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1394 | 1013 |
| LMArena Korean | 1377 | 1032 |
| LMArena Russian | 1410 | 1168 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1420 | 1143 |
Instruction Following Grok 4 leads
Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), Mistral: 52.6 (#288)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 94.9% | 56.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1387 | 1152 |
Long Context Grok 4 leads
Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Mistral: 35.0 (#245)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1409 | 1153 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 94.4% | — |
Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads
Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Mistral: 37.0 (#260)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1411 | 1165 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1397 | 1158 |
| WildBench | 79.7% | 66% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1416 | 1147 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok 4 better than Mistral?
Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Grok 4 or Mistral better for coding?
Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Mistral share?
22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Mistral has 22.