Model comparison
Grok Build 0.1 vs Mistral Medium
Grok Build 0.1 and Mistral Medium score almost the same on the Noometry Index (36.4 vs 36.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok Build 0.1 scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Medium in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Grok Build 0.1 leads 43.1 to 34.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 50.2% for Grok Build 0.1 and 40.2% for Mistral Medium.
- Grok Build 0.1 is cheaper at $1 / $2 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium.
- Mistral Medium accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 256K.
- Mistral Medium has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 36.4 | 36.3 |
| Released | 2026-04-16 | 2023-12-11 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 256K | 262K |
| Max output | 256K | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1 | $1.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2 | $7.50 |
| Results tracked | 3 | 36 |
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Category by category
Coding Grok Build 0.1 leads
Grok Build 0.1: 43.1 (#91), Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)
| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 50.2% | 40.2% |
| FrontierCode | — | 8% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.7% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1434 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 763.98 |
Agentic & Tool Use Mistral Medium leads
Grok Build 0.1: 22.7 (#129), Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)
| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.7% |
| GBAEval | 2.4% | — |
Reasoning Grok Build 0.1 leads
Grok Build 0.1: 32.2 (#77), Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)
| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 9.1% | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 50% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1426 |
| DTBench | — | 75.5% |
| LMCA | — | 26.1% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 26.9% |
Math Not comparable
Grok Build 0.1: —, Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)
| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 32.2% |
| ProofBench | — | 9% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1408 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 81.6% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Grok Build 0.1: —, Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)
| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 59.5% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 4.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 22.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1408 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Grok Build 0.1: —, Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)
| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1172 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Grok Build 0.1: —, Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)
| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1408 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1447 |
| LMArena French | — | 1459 |
| LMArena German | — | 1432 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1378 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1380 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1411 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1433 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Grok Build 0.1: —, Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)
| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1398 |
Long Context Not comparable
Grok Build 0.1: —, Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)
| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1406 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Grok Build 0.1: —, Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)
| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1424 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1391 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 77.3% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1418 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok Build 0.1 better than Mistral Medium?
Grok Build 0.1 and Mistral Medium score almost the same on the Noometry Index (36.4 vs 36.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Grok Build 0.1 or Mistral Medium?
Grok Build 0.1 is cheaper. It lists at $1 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium lists at $1.50 and $7.50.
Is Grok Build 0.1 or Mistral Medium better for coding?
Grok Build 0.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.1 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Mistral Medium does, with 262K tokens against 256K.
How many benchmarks do Grok Build 0.1 and Mistral Medium share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok Build 0.1 has 3 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.