# Grok Build 0.1 vs Mistral Medium 3.5

> Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.2 to 36.4 on the Noometry Index. Grok Build 0.1 costs 2.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium 3.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/grok-build-0-1-vs-mistral-medium-3-5
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok Build 0.1 leads 32.2 to 17.3.
- Grok Build 0.1 is cheaper at $1 / $2 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium 3.5.
- Mistral Medium 3.5 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 256K.
- Mistral Medium 3.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 36.4 | 40.2 |
| Rank | 216 | 152 |
| Context | 256K | 262K |
| Input $/M | $1 | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | $2 | $7.50 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Grok Build 0.1: 43.1 (#91)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.0 (#213)

| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1264 |
| SciCode | 50.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1461 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Grok Build 0.1: 22.7 (#129)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: —

| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| GBAEval | 2.4% | — |

## Reasoning

- Grok Build 0.1: 32.2 (#77)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 17.3 (#295)

| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 41.4% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 12.9% |
| CritPt | 9.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1436 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 141.35 |

## Math

- Grok Build 0.1: —
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113)

| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1431 |

## Knowledge

- Grok Build 0.1: —
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126)

| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1432 |

## Multimodal

- Grok Build 0.1: —
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 38.3 (#65)

| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1223 |

## Multilingual

- Grok Build 0.1: —
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100)

| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1404 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1442 |
| LMArena French | — | 1448 |
| LMArena German | — | 1451 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1385 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1395 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1409 |

## Instruction Following

- Grok Build 0.1: —
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.6 (#90)

| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1415 |

## Long Context

- Grok Build 0.1: —
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103)

| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1415 |

## Writing & Preference

- Grok Build 0.1: —
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117)

| Benchmark | Grok Build 0.1 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1421 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1374 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 993 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1423 |

## FAQ

### Is Grok Build 0.1 better than Mistral Medium 3.5?

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.2 to 36.4 on the Noometry Index. Grok Build 0.1 costs 2.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium 3.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Grok Build 0.1 or Mistral Medium 3.5?

Grok Build 0.1 is cheaper. It lists at $1 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.5 lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

### Is Grok Build 0.1 or Mistral Medium 3.5 better for coding?

Grok Build 0.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.1 versus 36.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Medium 3.5 does, with 262K tokens against 256K.

### How many benchmarks do Grok Build 0.1 and Mistral Medium 3.5 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok Build 0.1 has 3 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22.