# Grok 4.1 vs Mistral Large

> Grok 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/grok-4-1-vs-mistral-large
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4.1 scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral Large in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Grok 4.1 leads 62.4 to 40.7.
- Mistral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Grok 4.1 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 41.5 | 31.9 |
| Rank | 134 | 263 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $2 |
| Output $/M | — | $6 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Grok 4.1: 33.7 (#253)
- Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1445 | 1277 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1214 | — |
| SciCode | — | 36.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 30% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 47.1% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.3% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 264.7 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 62.2% |
| MBPP+ | — | 59.5% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Grok 4.1: 34.1 (#49)
- Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 38.4% |
| Cybench | 39% | — |

## Reasoning

- Grok 4.1: 29.5 (#91)
- Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1435 | 1257 |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 43.5% |
| DTBench | — | 65.1% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 50.1% |
| LMCA | — | 16.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 128.52 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.1 |
| LiveBench | — | 48.4% |

## Math

- Grok 4.1: 38.9 (#120)
- Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1422 | 1262 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 8.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 28.1% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 42.5% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 50.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |

## Knowledge

- Grok 4.1: 39.5 (#133)
- Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1417 | 1232 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 51.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 59.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 21.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 43.5% |
| MMLU | — | 80% |

## Multilingual

- Grok 4.1: 53.4 (#68)
- Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1425 | 1237 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1465 | 1240 |
| LMArena French | 1448 | 1325 |
| LMArena German | 1446 | 1254 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1397 | 1188 |
| LMArena Korean | 1407 | 1202 |
| LMArena Russian | 1434 | 1257 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1438 | 1268 |

## Instruction Following

- Grok 4.1: 73.8 (#111)
- Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1400 | 1249 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 67.9% |
| IFEval | — | 87.7% |

## Long Context

- Grok 4.1: 43.2 (#100)
- Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1416 | 1261 |

## Writing & Preference

- Grok 4.1: 62.4 (#75)
- Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242)

| Benchmark | Grok 4.1 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1437 | 1266 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1411 | 1243 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1437 | 1260 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 69% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 985 |
| WildBench | — | 80.1% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 39.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Grok 4.1 better than Mistral Large?

Grok 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Grok 4.1 or Mistral Large better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (33.7 vs 34.3); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Grok 4.1 and Mistral Large share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4.1 has 19 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large has 51.