Model comparison

Grok 4 vs Mistral 7B

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Mistral 7B Mistral AI

23.0

Rank #351 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok 4 leads 53.8 to 7.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 84% for Grok 4 and 0.3% for Mistral 7B.
  • Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4 and Mistral 7B specifications
Grok 4Mistral 7B
ProviderxAIMistral AI
Noometry Index48.123.0
Released2025-07-092023-09-27
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—8K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$0.25
Results tracked4837

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral 7B
LMArena Coding14081082
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
WeirdML45.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—19.5%
BigCodeBench Complete—27.3%
HumanEval+—36%
MBPP+—42.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Mistral 7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral 7B
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), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral 7B
Chess Puzzles28%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14091067
Epoch Capabilities Index146.44112.21
ARC-AGI-216%—
SimpleBench60.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%—
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
DTBench—42.5%
Adversarial NLI—47.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—56.1%
ForecastBench60.9—
HellaSwag—81%
PIQA—83%
WinoGrande—75.3%

Math Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral 7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%0.3%
LMArena Math14221085
Omni-MATH60.3%—
MATH Level 5—3.7%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—
GSM8K—54.4%

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral 7B
GPQA Diamond87%15.2%
LMArena Expert14151036
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.6%
BoolQ—87.4%
MMLU—62.5%
OpenBookQA—79.8%
TriviaQA—75.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Mistral 7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral 7B
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench45%—

Multilingual Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral 7B
LMArena Non-English14031012
LMArena Chinese14271009
LMArena French14181037
LMArena German1429987
LMArena Japanese1394878
LMArena Russian14101018
LMArena Spanish14201026
LMArena Korean1377—

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral 7B
LMArena Instruction Following13871060
IFEval94.9%—

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral 7B
LMArena Longer Query14091060
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—

Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral 7B
LMArena Text14111090
LMArena Creative Writing13971068
LMArena Multi-Turn14161062
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%—
WildBench79.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than Mistral 7B?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 or Mistral 7B better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Mistral 7B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.

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