Model comparison

Grok 4 vs Mistral Large 4

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 43.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Mistral Large 4 Mistral AI

43.1

Rank #99 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 6 categories and Mistral Large 4 in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Grok 4 leads 63.1 to 43.6.

Side by side

Grok 4 and Mistral Large 4 specifications
Grok 4Mistral Large 4
ProviderxAIMistral AI
Noometry Index48.143.1
Released2025-07-092026-10-06
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.68
Output $ / M tokens—$2.09
Results tracked4815

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Mistral Large 4: 48.6 (#57)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Large 4
LMArena Coding14081475
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
LMArena WebDev—1541
WeirdML45.7%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Mistral Large 4: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Large 4
Terminal-Bench27.2%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard63%—
GDPval21.1%—
Cybench43%—
DeepResearch Bench47.3%—
BALROG43.6%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons66.6%—

Reasoning Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 36.7 (#65), Mistral Large 4: 22.5 (#192)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Large 4
LMArena Hard Prompts14091444
ARC-AGI-216%—
SimpleBench60.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)—27.4%
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
Chess Puzzles28%—
Epoch Capabilities Index146.44—
ForecastBench60.9—

Math Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), Mistral Large 4: 40.4 (#91)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Large 4
LMArena Math14221488
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%—
Omni-MATH60.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), Mistral Large 4: 36.6 (#166)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Large 4
LMArena Expert14151447
GPQA Diamond87%—
SimpleQA Verified—20%
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Mistral Large 4: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Large 4
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench45%—

Multilingual Too close to call

Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Mistral Large 4: 52.6 (#82)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Large 4
LMArena Non-English14031415
LMArena Chinese14271491
LMArena Russian14101414
LMArena French1418—
LMArena German1429—
LMArena Japanese1394—
LMArena Korean1377—
LMArena Spanish1420—

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), Mistral Large 4: 75.0 (#76)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Large 4
LMArena Instruction Following13871424
IFEval94.9%—

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Mistral Large 4: 43.6 (#89)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Large 4
LMArena Longer Query14091429
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—

Writing & Preference Mistral Large 4 leads

Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Mistral Large 4: 60.4 (#97)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Large 4
LMArena Text14111427
LMArena Creative Writing13971361
LMArena Multi-Turn14161424
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%—
WildBench79.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than Mistral Large 4?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 43.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 or Mistral Large 4 better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 48.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Mistral Large 4 share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large 4 has 15.

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