Model Comparison

Comprehensive side-by-side analysis of model capabilities and performance

xAI

Grok-4

xAI

Grok-4 is a multimodal language model developed by xAI. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 63.1% across 7 benchmarks. It excels particularly in AIME 2025 (91.7%), HMMT25 (90.0%), GPQA (87.5%). It supports a 264K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 2 API providers. As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. Released in 2025, it represents xAI's latest advancement in AI technology.

Mistral AI

Ministral 8B Instruct

Mistral AI

Ministral 8B Instruct is a language model developed by Mistral AI. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 63.3% across 11 benchmarks. It excels particularly in MT-Bench (83.0%), Winogrande (75.3%), ARC-C (71.9%). It supports a 256K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 1 API provider. Released in 2024, it represents Mistral AI's latest advancement in AI technology.

Mistral AI

Ministral 8B Instruct

Mistral AI

2024-10-16

xAI

Grok-4

xAI

2025-07-09

8 months newer

Pricing Comparison

Cost per million tokens (USD)

xAI

Grok-4

Input:$3.00
Output:$15.00
Mistral AI

Ministral 8B Instruct

$17.80 cheaper
Input:$0.10
Output:$0.10

Performance Metrics

Context window and performance specifications

xAI

Grok-4

Larger context
Max Context:264.0K
Mistral AI

Ministral 8B Instruct

Max Context:256.0K
Parameters:8.0B

Performance comparison across key benchmark categories

xAI

Grok-4

code
+28.0%
79.0%
reasoning
15.9%
general
+4.6%
69.3%
Mistral AI

Ministral 8B Instruct

code
51.0%
reasoning
+57.7%
73.6%
general
64.7%
Knowledge Cutoff
Training data recency comparison

Grok-4

2024-12-31

More recent knowledge cutoff means awareness of newer technologies and frameworks

Provider Availability & Performance

Available providers and their performance metrics

xAI

Grok-4

2 providers

xAI

Throughput: 100 tok/s
Latency: 0.7ms

ZeroEval

Throughput: 100 tok/s
Latency: 0.7ms
Mistral AI

Ministral 8B Instruct

1 providers

Mistral AI

Throughput: 0.1 tok/s
Latency: 0.18ms
xAI

Grok-4

Avg Score:0.0%
Providers:2
Mistral AI

Ministral 8B Instruct

Avg Score:0.0%
Providers:1