Model comparison
Grok-2 (Dec 2024) vs Mistral Small
Grok-2 (Dec 2024) and Mistral Small score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 33.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok-2 (Dec 2024) scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Small in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads 20.8 to 16.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 63.5% for Grok-2 (Dec 2024) and 46.8% for Mistral Small.
- Mistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Mistral Small | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 33.4 |
| Released | 2024-08-13 | 2024-02-26 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 256K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.60 |
| Results tracked | 34 | 39 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 33.3 (#258), Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 46.4% | 36.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1287 | 1362 |
| SciCode | — | 26.5% |
| WeirdML | 22.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 36.1% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.6% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 497.62 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): —, Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.1% |
Reasoning Mistral Small leads
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 16.9 (#299), Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 54.8% | 44.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1272 | 1335 |
| DTBench | 65.2% | 70.9% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 54.5% | 53.7% |
| LiveBench | 54.3% | 44% |
| SimpleBench | 22.7% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 37.8% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LMCA | — | 20.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 130.48 | — |
Math Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 20.8 (#284), Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 11.5% | 5.8% |
| LiveBench Math | 54.9% | 39.9% |
| LMArena Math | 1283 | 1341 |
| MATH Level 5 | 63.5% | 46.8% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.7% | — |
Knowledge Mistral Small leads
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 29.8 (#233), Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 53.8% | 47.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1254 | 1291 |
| Confabulations | 20.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.1% |
| MMLU | — | 68.7% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): —, Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1142 |
Multilingual Mistral Small leads
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 43.1 (#188), Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1282 | 1315 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1289 | 1340 |
| LMArena French | 1318 | 1337 |
| LMArena German | 1287 | 1340 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1244 | 1275 |
| LMArena Korean | 1237 | 1259 |
| LMArena Russian | 1286 | 1324 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1281 | 1346 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 66.9 (#202), Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 69.6% | 63.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1270 | 1310 |
Long Context Mistral Small leads
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 38.8 (#190), Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1276 | 1327 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Small leads
Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 48.6 (#198), Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171)
| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1305 | 1338 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1284 | 1305 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1290 | 1344 |
| LiveBench Language | 45.6% | 30.5% |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 63.6% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok-2 (Dec 2024) better than Mistral Small?
Grok-2 (Dec 2024) and Mistral Small score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 33.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Grok-2 (Dec 2024) or Mistral Small better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (33.3 vs 34.0); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Grok-2 (Dec 2024) and Mistral Small share?
28 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok-2 (Dec 2024) has 34 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small has 39.