# Grok 3 vs Mistral

> Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/grok-3-vs-mistral
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 22

## Summary

- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 3 scores higher in 7 categories and Mistral in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok 3 leads 46.0 to 16.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 78.8% for Grok 3 and 27.7% for Mistral.

## Snapshot

| | Grok 3 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 39.6 | 29.4 |
| Rank | 150 | 297 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Grok 3: 41.5 (#113)
- Mistral: 33.2 (#249)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1432 | 1162 |
| Aider Polyglot | 53.3% | — |
| WeirdML | 37.2% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Grok 3: 30.2 (#69)
- Mistral: —

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 29.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- Grok 3: 13.8 (#322)
- Mistral: 21.3 (#199)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1433 | 1149 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 36.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 61.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5.5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.34 | — |

## Math

- Grok 3: 36.2 (#122)
- Mistral: 20.5 (#275)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 46.4% | 7.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1390 | 1180 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 55.6% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 88.7% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 3.8% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |

## Knowledge

- Grok 3: 46.0 (#76)
- Mistral: 16.3 (#283)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 78.8% | 27.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65% | 30.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1420 | 1125 |
| GPQA Diamond | 75.8% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.2% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Grok 3: 52.5 (#81)
- Mistral: 33.0 (#249)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1411 | 1129 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1448 | 1109 |
| LMArena French | 1460 | 1179 |
| LMArena German | 1431 | 1155 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1389 | 1012 |
| LMArena Korean | 1374 | 1032 |
| LMArena Russian | 1416 | 1168 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1417 | 1143 |

## Instruction Following

- Grok 3: 75.2 (#69)
- Mistral: 52.9 (#283)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 88.4% | 56.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1409 | 1152 |

## Long Context

- Grok 3: 38.7 (#187)
- Mistral: 35.0 (#240)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1439 | 1154 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 58.3% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Grok 3: 56.0 (#136)
- Mistral: 37.2 (#255)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1426 | 1165 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1414 | 1158 |
| WildBench | 84.9% | 66% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1424 | 1147 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.4% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1186 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Grok 3 better than Mistral?

Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Grok 3 or Mistral better for coding?

Grok 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.5 versus 33.2 in the Noometry coding category.

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

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Mistral has 22.