# Grok 4.1 vs Mistral 7B

> Grok 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/grok-4-1-vs-mistral-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 16

## Summary

- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4.1 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 4.1 leads 39.5 to 7.4.
- Mistral 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Grok 4.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 41.5 | 23.0 |
| Rank | 134 | 351 |
| Context | — | 8K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Grok 4.1: 33.7 (#253)
- Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1445 | 1082 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1214 | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 19.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 36% |
| MBPP+ | — | 42.1% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Grok 4.1: 34.1 (#49)
- Mistral 7B: —

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 39% | — |

## Reasoning

- Grok 4.1: 29.5 (#91)
- Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1435 | 1067 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 42.5% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 47.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 56.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 112.21 |
| HellaSwag | — | 81% |
| PIQA | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.3% |

## Math

- Grok 4.1: 38.9 (#120)
- Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1422 | 1085 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 0.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 3.7% |
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |

## Knowledge

- Grok 4.1: 39.5 (#133)
- Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1417 | 1036 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 15.2% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 87.4% |
| MMLU | — | 62.5% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 79.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 75.2% |

## Multilingual

- Grok 4.1: 53.4 (#68)
- Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1425 | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1465 | 1009 |
| LMArena French | 1448 | 1037 |
| LMArena German | 1446 | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1397 | 878 |
| LMArena Russian | 1434 | 1018 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1438 | 1026 |
| LMArena Korean | 1407 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Grok 4.1: 73.8 (#111)
- Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1400 | 1060 |

## Long Context

- Grok 4.1: 43.2 (#100)
- Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1416 | 1060 |

## Writing & Preference

- Grok 4.1: 62.4 (#75)
- Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1437 | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1411 | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1437 | 1062 |

## FAQ

### Is Grok 4.1 better than Mistral 7B?

Grok 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Grok 4.1 or Mistral 7B better for coding?

Grok 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.7 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Grok 4.1 and Mistral 7B share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4.1 has 19 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.