Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 4 vs Mistral Small 3.2

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Mistral Small 3.2 Mistral AI

31.2

Rank #280 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 4 categories and Mistral Small 3.2 in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok 4 leads 53.8 to 26.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 84% for Grok 4 and 30.3% for Mistral Small 3.2.
  • Mistral Small 3.2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4Mistral Small 3.2
ProviderxAIMistral AI
Noometry Index48.131.2
Released2025-07-092025-06-20
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—256K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.0938
Output $ / M tokens—$0.25
Results tracked486

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Small 3.2
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
WeirdML45.7%—
LMArena Coding1408—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Small 3.2
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 Small 3.2: 18.1 (#287)

BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Small 3.2
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%40.4%
Chess Puzzles28%1%
Epoch Capabilities Index146.44131.74
ARC-AGI-216%—
SimpleBench60.5%—
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1409—
ForecastBench60.9—

Math Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.3 (#260)

BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Small 3.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%30.3%
Omni-MATH60.3%—
LMArena Math1422—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.7 (#256)

BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Small 3.2
GPQA Diamond87%49.1%
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—
LMArena Expert1415—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Small 3.2
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench45%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Small 3.2
LMArena Non-English1403—
LMArena Chinese1427—
LMArena French1418—
LMArena German1429—
LMArena Japanese1394—
LMArena Korean1377—
LMArena Russian1410—
LMArena Spanish1420—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Small 3.2
IFEval94.9%—
LMArena Instruction Following1387—

Long Context Not comparable

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Mistral Small 3.2: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Small 3.2
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—
LMArena Longer Query1409—

Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Mistral Small 3.2: 45.0 (#224)

BenchmarkGrok 4Mistral Small 3.2
LMArena Text1411—
LMArena Creative Writing1397—
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1255
WildBench79.7%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1416—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than Mistral Small 3.2?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Mistral Small 3.2 share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.

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