Model comparison
Grok Build 0.1 vs Mistral Small
Grok Build 0.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.4 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Small costs 4.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Grok Build 0.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
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 Small in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok Build 0.1 leads 32.2 to 19.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 50.2% for Grok Build 0.1 and 26.5% for Mistral Small.
- Mistral Small is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.60 per million input/output tokens, against $1 / $2 for Grok Build 0.1.
- Mistral Small accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 256K.
- Mistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Small | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 36.4 | 33.4 |
| Released | 2026-04-16 | 2024-02-26 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 256K | 262K |
| Max output | 256K | 256K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1 | $0.15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2 | $0.60 |
| Results tracked | 3 | 39 |
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Category by category
Coding Grok Build 0.1 leads
Grok Build 0.1: 43.1 (#91), Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247)
| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 50.2% | 26.5% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 36.1% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 36.2% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1362 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.6% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 497.62 |
Agentic & Tool Use Mistral Small leads
Grok Build 0.1: 22.7 (#129), Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93)
| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.1% |
| GBAEval | 2.4% | — |
Reasoning Grok Build 0.1 leads
Grok Build 0.1: 32.2 (#77), Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250)
| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 9.1% | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 37.8% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 44.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1335 |
| DTBench | — | 70.9% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 53.7% |
| LMCA | — | 20.6% |
| LiveBench | — | 44% |
Math Not comparable
Grok Build 0.1: —, Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293)
| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 5.8% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 39.9% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1341 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 46.8% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Grok Build 0.1: —, Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222)
| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1291 |
| MMLU | — | 68.7% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Grok Build 0.1: —, Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96)
| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1142 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Grok Build 0.1: —, Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169)
| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1315 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1340 |
| LMArena French | — | 1337 |
| LMArena German | — | 1340 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1275 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1259 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1324 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1346 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Grok Build 0.1: —, Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209)
| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 63.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1310 |
Long Context Not comparable
Grok Build 0.1: —, Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156)
| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1327 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Grok Build 0.1: —, Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171)
| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1338 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1305 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1344 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 30.5% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok Build 0.1 better than Mistral Small?
Grok Build 0.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.4 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Small costs 4.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Grok Build 0.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Grok Build 0.1 or Mistral Small?
Mistral Small is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; Grok Build 0.1 lists at $1 and $2.
Is Grok Build 0.1 or Mistral Small better for coding?
Grok Build 0.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.1 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Mistral Small does, with 262K tokens against 256K.
How many benchmarks do Grok Build 0.1 and Mistral Small share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok Build 0.1 has 3 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small has 39.