# Grok-2 (Dec 2024) vs Mistral 7B

> Grok-2 (Dec 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/grok-2-vs-mistral-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 21

## Summary

- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok-2 (Dec 2024) 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-2 (Dec 2024) leads 29.8 to 7.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 63.5% for Grok-2 (Dec 2024) and 3.7% for Mistral 7B.
- Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 23.0 |
| Rank | 239 | 351 |
| Context | — | 8K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 33.3 (#258)
- Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1287 | 1082 |
| WeirdML | 22.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 19.5% |
| LiveBench Coding | 46.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 36% |
| MBPP+ | — | 42.1% |

## Reasoning

- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 16.9 (#299)
- Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1272 | 1067 |
| DTBench | 65.2% | 42.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 130.48 | 112.21 |
| SimpleBench | 22.7% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 54.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 54.5% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 47.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 56.1% |
| HellaSwag | — | 81% |
| LiveBench | 54.3% | — |
| PIQA | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.3% |

## Math

- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 20.8 (#284)
- Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 11.5% | 0.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1283 | 1085 |
| MATH Level 5 | 63.5% | 3.7% |
| LiveBench Math | 54.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.7% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |

## Knowledge

- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 29.8 (#233)
- Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 53.8% | 15.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1254 | 1036 |
| Confabulations | 20.1% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 87.4% |
| MMLU | — | 62.5% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 79.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 75.2% |

## Multilingual

- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 43.1 (#188)
- Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1282 | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1289 | 1009 |
| LMArena French | 1318 | 1037 |
| LMArena German | 1287 | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1244 | 878 |
| LMArena Russian | 1286 | 1018 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1281 | 1026 |
| LMArena Korean | 1237 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 66.9 (#202)
- Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1270 | 1060 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 69.6% | — |

## Long Context

- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 38.8 (#190)
- Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1276 | 1060 |

## Writing & Preference

- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 48.6 (#198)
- Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1305 | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1284 | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1290 | 1062 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 63.6% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 45.6% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Grok-2 (Dec 2024) better than Mistral 7B?

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Grok-2 (Dec 2024) or Mistral 7B better for coding?

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.3 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Grok-2 (Dec 2024) and Mistral 7B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok-2 (Dec 2024) has 34 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.