Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 4 vs Mixtral 8x7B

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x7B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #334 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 8 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok 4 leads 53.8 to 11.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 87% for Grok 4 and 30.6% for Mixtral 8x7B.
  • Mixtral 8x7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4Mixtral 8x7B
ProviderxAIMistral AI
Noometry Index48.127.1
Released2025-07-092023-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—32K
Max output—32K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$0.70
Results tracked4838

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)

BenchmarkGrok 4Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Coding14081126
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
WeirdML45.7%—
HumanEval+—39.6%
MBPP+—49.7%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Mixtral 8x7B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Mixtral 8x7B
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), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)

BenchmarkGrok 4Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Hard Prompts14091115
Epoch Capabilities Index146.44118.47
ForecastBench60.956.3
ARC-AGI-216%—
SimpleBench60.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%—
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
Chess Puzzles28%—
DTBench—49.6%
Adversarial NLI—55.2%
HellaSwag—86.7%
PIQA—83.6%
WinoGrande—77.2%

Math Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)

BenchmarkGrok 4Mixtral 8x7B
Omni-MATH60.3%10.5%
LMArena Math14221147
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%—
MATH Level 5—10%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—
GSM8K—74.4%

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)

BenchmarkGrok 4Mixtral 8x7B
GPQA Diamond87%30.6%
MMLU-Pro85.1%33.5%
GPQA (HELM)72.7%29.6%
LMArena Expert14151088
Confabulations12.4%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—87.3%
MMLU—70.6%
OpenBookQA—85.8%
TriviaQA—82.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Mixtral 8x7B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench45%—

Multilingual Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)

BenchmarkGrok 4Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Non-English14031077
LMArena Chinese14271055
LMArena French14181166
LMArena German14291114
LMArena Japanese1394931
LMArena Korean1377968
LMArena Russian14101090
LMArena Spanish14201111

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)

BenchmarkGrok 4Mixtral 8x7B
IFEval94.9%57.5%
LMArena Instruction Following13871109

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)

BenchmarkGrok 4Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Longer Query14091103
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—

Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)

BenchmarkGrok 4Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Text14111132
LMArena Creative Writing13971109
WildBench79.7%67.3%
LMArena Multi-Turn14161115
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than Mixtral 8x7B?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 32.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Mixtral 8x7B share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.

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