# Grok 3 vs Mistral Nemo

> Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/grok-3-vs-mistral-nemo
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 5

## Summary

- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 3 scores higher in 4 categories and Mistral Nemo in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok 3 leads 46.2 to 12.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 88.7% for Grok 3 and 10.8% for Mistral Nemo.
- Mistral Nemo has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Grok 3 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 39.9 | 26.4 |
| Rank | 157 | 337 |
| Context | — | 128K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Grok 3: 41.9 (#115)
- Mistral Nemo: —

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 53.3% | — |
| WeirdML | 37.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1432 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Grok 3: 30.5 (#76)
- Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 29.5% | 17.6% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 27.6% |

## Reasoning

- Grok 3: 13.7 (#333)
- Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.33 | 118.68 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 36.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 61.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5.5% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1434 | — |
| DTBench | — | 48.6% |
| PIQA | — | 83.5% |

## Math

- Grok 3: 38.0 (#145)
- Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | 88.7% | 10.8% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 55.6% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 46.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1391 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 3.8% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 84.2% |

## Knowledge

- Grok 3: 46.2 (#82)
- Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 75.8% | 29.9% |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.8% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.2% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1421 | — |
| BoolQ | — | 82.5% |

## Multilingual

- Grok 3: 52.3 (#87)
- Mistral Nemo: —

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1410 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1448 | — |
| LMArena French | 1460 | — |
| LMArena German | 1431 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1387 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1373 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1416 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1417 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Grok 3: 75.0 (#73)
- Mistral Nemo: —

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 88.4% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1409 | — |

## Long Context

- Grok 3: 38.7 (#192)
- Mistral Nemo: —

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 58.3% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1439 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Grok 3: 55.8 (#141)
- Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Mistral Nemo |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1186 | 881 |
| LMArena Text | 1426 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1414 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.4% | — |
| WildBench | 84.9% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1425 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Grok 3 better than Mistral Nemo?

Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Grok 3 and Mistral Nemo share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Nemo has 10.