Model comparison
Grok 4 vs Mistral Large
Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 31 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 31 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 9 categories and Mistral Large in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Grok 4 leads 48.4 to 18.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 84% for Grok 4 and 8.5% for Mistral Large.
- Mistral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Grok 4 | Mistral Large | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 48.1 | 31.9 |
| Released | 2025-07-09 | 2024-02-26 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $6 |
| Results tracked | 48 | 51 |
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Category by category
Coding Grok 4 leads
Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1408 | 1277 |
| Aider Polyglot | 79.6% | — |
| SciCode | — | 36.2% |
| WeirdML | 45.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 30% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 47.1% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.3% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 264.7 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 62.2% |
| MBPP+ | — | 59.5% |
Agentic & Tool Use Grok 4 leads
Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 63% | 38.4% |
| Terminal-Bench | 27.2% | — |
| 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 Large: 15.8 (#310)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 60.5% | 22.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1409 | 1257 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 146.44 | 128.52 |
| ForecastBench | 60.9 | 57.1 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 16% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 73.6% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 66.7% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | 28% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 43.5% |
| DTBench | — | 65.1% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 50.1% |
| LMCA | — | 16.7% |
| LiveBench | — | 48.4% |
Math Grok 4 leads
Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 84% | 8.5% |
| Omni-MATH | 60.3% | 28.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1422 | 1262 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 19.7% | 0.3% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 42.5% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 50.3% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 2.1% | — |
Knowledge Grok 4 leads
Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 87% | 51.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 85.1% | 59.9% |
| Confabulations | 12.4% | 21.4% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 72.7% | 43.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1415 | 1232 |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.5% |
| MMLU | — | 80% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Mistral Large: —
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1210 | — |
| GeoBench | 45% | — |
Multilingual Grok 4 leads
Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1403 | 1237 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1427 | 1240 |
| LMArena French | 1418 | 1325 |
| LMArena German | 1429 | 1254 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1394 | 1188 |
| LMArena Korean | 1377 | 1202 |
| LMArena Russian | 1410 | 1257 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1420 | 1268 |
Instruction Following Grok 4 leads
Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 94.9% | 87.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1387 | 1249 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 67.9% |
Long Context Grok 4 leads
Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1409 | 1261 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 94.4% | — |
Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads
Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1411 | 1266 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1397 | 1243 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.9% | 69% |
| WildBench | 79.7% | 80.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1416 | 1260 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 985 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 39.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok 4 better than Mistral Large?
Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Grok 4 or Mistral Large better for coding?
Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 34.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Mistral Large share?
31 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large has 51.