Model comparison

Grok 4.5 vs Mistral Large

Grok 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 55.0 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4.5 xAI

55.0

Rank #25 Confirmed

Mistral Large Mistral AI

31.9

Rank #263 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4.5 scores higher in 9 categories and Mistral Large in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Grok 4.5 leads 60.9 to 18.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 97.8% for Grok 4.5 and 8.5% for Mistral Large.
  • Both cost about the same: $2 input and $6 output per million tokens.
  • Grok 4.5 accepts more context: 500K tokens versus 131K.
  • Mistral Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4.5 and Mistral Large specifications
Grok 4.5Mistral Large
ProviderxAIMistral AI
Noometry Index55.031.9
Released2026-07-082024-02-26
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window500K131K
Max output500K16K
Input $ / M tokens$2$2
Output $ / M tokens$6$6
Results tracked5251

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 52.2 (#35), Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Mistral Large
SciCode54.1%36.2%
LMArena Coding14741277
ALE-Bench1,309264.7
DeepSWE53.8%—
FrontierCode42.4%—
LMArena WebDev1553—
WeirdML46.4%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—30%
LiveBench Coding—47.1%
BigCodeBench Complete—38.3%
HumanEval+—62.2%
MBPP+—59.5%

Agentic & Tool Use Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 44.4 (#17), Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Mistral Large
APEX-Agents56.2%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—38.4%
τ²-bench Banking47.9%—
PostTrainBench23.4%—
GBAEval65.4%—
GDP.pdf14%—
LMArena Search1213—
Vending-Bench 23,887—

Reasoning Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 56.1 (#25), Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Mistral Large
SimpleBench70%22.5%
CritPt15.4%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14621257
DTBench96.5%65.1%
LMCA45.2%16.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index153.92128.52
ARC-AGI-252.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)79.9%—
ARC-AGI-187.2%—
Chess Puzzles36%—
LiveBench Reasoning—43.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis—50.1%
Surface Evolver Bench74.4%—
ForecastBench—57.1
LiveBench—48.4%

Math Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 60.9 (#35), Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Mistral Large
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.8%8.5%
LMArena Math14591262
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)57.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 424.4%—
ProofBench31%—
Omni-MATH—28.1%
LiveBench Math—42.5%
MATH Level 5—50.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.3%

Knowledge Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 62.3 (#24), Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Mistral Large
GPQA Diamond93.4%51.3%
LMArena Expert14661232
SimpleQA Verified48.3%—
MMLU-Pro—59.9%
Confabulations—21.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—4.5%
GPQA (HELM)—43.5%
MMLU—80%

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 37.6 (#72), Mistral Large: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Mistral Large
LMArena Vision1288—
Blueprint-Bench 227.3%—
Furniture Assembly22.5%—
LMArena Document1452—

Multilingual Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 54.4 (#42), Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Mistral Large
LMArena Non-English14401237
LMArena Chinese14961240
LMArena French14561325
LMArena German14461254
LMArena Japanese14281188
LMArena Korean14041202
LMArena Russian14481257
LMArena Spanish14501268

Instruction Following Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 76.0 (#48), Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Mistral Large
LMArena Instruction Following14461249
LiveBench Instruction Following—67.9%
IFEval—87.7%

Long Context Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 44.8 (#56), Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Mistral Large
LMArena Longer Query14631261

Writing & Preference Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 65.8 (#42), Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Mistral Large
LMArena Text14481266
LMArena Creative Writing14421243
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1579985
LMArena Multi-Turn14561260
Short-Story Creative Writing—69%
WildBench—80.1%
LiveBench Language—39.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4.5 better than Mistral Large?

Grok 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 55.0 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Grok 4.5 or Mistral Large?

Mistral Large is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; Grok 4.5 lists at $2 and $6.

Is Grok 4.5 or Mistral Large better for coding?

Grok 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.2 versus 34.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Grok 4.5 does, with 500K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4.5 and Mistral Large share?

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4.5 has 52 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large has 51.

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