Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 4.6 vs Mistral Small 4

Grok 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#19); Mistral Small 4 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4.6 xAI

56.8

Rank #19 Confirmed

Mistral Small 4 Mistral AI

30.2

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 4.6 leads 61.3 to 21.2.
  • Mistral Small 4 is cheaper at $0.075 / $0.30 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Grok 4.6.
  • Grok 4.6 accepts more context: 500K tokens versus 262K.
  • Mistral Small 4 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4.6Mistral Small 4
ProviderxAIMistral AI
Noometry Index56.830.2
Released2026-08-12—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window500K262K
Max output500K210K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.075
Output $ / M tokens$6$0.30
Results tracked491

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 58.0 (#14), Mistral Small 4: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Mistral Small 4
DeepSWE67.5%—
FrontierCode48%—
CursorBench41.4%—
LMArena WebDev1620—
FrontierSWE25.3%—
SciCode56.5%—
WeirdML67.3%—
LMArena Coding1464—
ALE-Bench1,508—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 39.4 (#25), Mistral Small 4: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Mistral Small 4
APEX-Agents65.3%—
GDP.pdf17.2%—
Vending-Bench 29,047—

Reasoning Grok 4.6 leads

Grok 4.6: 61.3 (#18), Mistral Small 4: 21.2

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Mistral Small 4
ARC-AGI-267.1%—
SimpleBench75.9%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.5%
NYT Connections (extended)80%—
ARC-AGI-187.5%—
CritPt19.7%—
Chess Puzzles40%—
EBR-Bench30.5%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1445—
Mystery Game Puzzles34%—
DTBench97.3%—
LMCA48.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.48—

Math Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 66.8 (#19), Mistral Small 4: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Mistral Small 4
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)66%—
FrontierMath Tier 431.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202599.2%—
ProofBench51%—
LMArena Math1416—

Knowledge Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 63.3 (#18), Mistral Small 4: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Mistral Small 4
GPQA Diamond94%—
SimpleQA Verified49.3%—
LMArena Expert1463—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 43.9 (#18), Mistral Small 4: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Mistral Small 4
LMArena Vision1265—
Blueprint-Bench 233.2%—
Furniture Assembly40%—
LMArena Document1452—

Multilingual Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 53.3 (#67), Mistral Small 4: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Mistral Small 4
LMArena Non-English1422—
LMArena Chinese1479—
LMArena French1458—
LMArena German1425—
LMArena Japanese1383—
LMArena Korean1395—
LMArena Russian1427—
LMArena Spanish1408—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 75.6 (#59), Mistral Small 4: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Mistral Small 4
LMArena Instruction Following1431—

Long Context Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 44.4 (#62), Mistral Small 4: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Mistral Small 4
LMArena Longer Query1453—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 62.5 (#77), Mistral Small 4: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Mistral Small 4
LMArena Text1427—
LMArena Creative Writing1430—
LMArena Multi-Turn1422—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4.6 better than Mistral Small 4?

Grok 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#19); Mistral Small 4 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Grok 4.6 or Mistral Small 4?

Mistral Small 4 is cheaper. It lists at $0.075 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens; Grok 4.6 lists at $2 and $6.

Which has the bigger context window?

Grok 4.6 does, with 500K tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4.6 and Mistral Small 4 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4.6 has 49 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 4 has 1.

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