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Grok 4.5 vs Mistral Large 2

Data verified

Head-to-head evidence from 9 shared benchmark results across 3 categories. Overall scores shown here use the public BenchAlign v5 ranking lane.

76.72/100
Margin
34.9pts
← winning
41.77/100
0 category wins0 category wins

Public leaderboard positions: Grok 4.5 #7 (Supported); Mistral Large 2 #163 (Estimated). Intervals and evidence labels describe ranking uncertainty, not a guarantee for a specific workload.

Evidence parity. Grok 4.5 and Mistral Large 2 share 9 comparable benchmark results. 0 of 8 categories are comparable. 18 results are unique to Grok 4.5; 2 to Mistral Large 2.

Updated July 18, 2026
Shared results
9
Grok 4.5 only
18
Mistral Large 2 only
2
Comparable categories
0 / 8

Benchmark data for Grok 4.5 and Mistral Large 2 is coming soon on BenchLM.

Confidence note. This is a partial-evidence comparison with 9 shared benchmark results across 3 evidence categories; 0 of 8 categories currently have scoreable aggregates for both models. Treat the verdict as directional until coverage is more balanced.

Why this result

BenchLM has partial data for these models, but not enough overlapping benchmark coverage to produce a fair score-level comparison yet.

Grok 4.5 has the larger context window at 500K, compared with 128K for Mistral Large 2.

Category breakdown

Exact category averages are shown below. Not measured means BenchLM does not have enough sourced public coverage for that model and category.

Category scores and score margins for Grok 4.5 and Mistral Large 2
CategoryGrok 4.5ΔMistral Large 2
AgenticGrok 4.583.3MarginNo overlapMistral Large 2Not measured
CodingGrok 4.564.7MarginNo overlapMistral Large 2Not measured

Operational comparison

Runtime and commercial metrics are compared only when both models have a complete sourced value.

MetricGrok 4.5Mistral Large 2Comparison
Input / output priceUSD per 1M tokensGrok 4.5$2 input / $6 outputMistral Large 2Not availableA complete price comparison is not available.
Generation speedtokens per secondGrok 4.5Not availableMistral Large 238 tok/sA complete speed comparison is not available.
First-answer latencyseconds to first tokenGrok 4.5Not availableMistral Large 21.45 sA complete latency comparison is not available.
Context windowmaximum listed tokensGrok 4.5500KMistral Large 2128KGrok 4.5 lists the larger context window.

Benchmark Deep Dive

Agentic
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Mistral Large 2Result
Terminal-Bench 2.0Source 83.3%Not comparable
deepSweSource 53%Not comparable
AA Agentic IndexSource 45.7%Not comparable
GDPval-AASource 51.7%Not comparable
GDPval-AASource 1535Not comparable
AA BriefcaseSource 1323Not comparable
AA AutomationBenchSource 51.4%Not comparable
AA EnterpriseOps-GymSource 40.8%Not comparable
AA Harvey LABSource 13.3%Not comparable
AA Tau3 BankingSource 32.6%Not comparable
aaTerminalBench21Source 81.6%Not comparable
τ²-bench resultsSource 30.7%Not comparable
Coding
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Mistral Large 2Result
SWE-bench ProSource 64.7%Not comparable
SWE MultilingualSource 78%Not comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.0Source 83.3%Not comparable
cursorBench32Source 66.7%Not comparable
AA Coding IndexSource 72.5%Not comparable
AA-SciCodeSource 54.1%29.2%Grok 4.5 leads
Reasoning
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Mistral Large 2Result
AA-LCRSource 67.7%5.3%Grok 4.5 leads
CritPtSource 15.4%0.0%Grok 4.5 leads
Knowledge
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Mistral Large 2Result
Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexSource 53.8%9.2%Grok 4.5 leads
AA-GPQA DiamondSource 93.1%48.6%Grok 4.5 leads
AA-HLESource 40.3%4.0%Grok 4.5 leads
AA-Omniscience IndexSource 26.4%-34.0%Grok 4.5 leads
AA-Omniscience AccuracySource 52.1%20.1%Grok 4.5 leads
AA-Omniscience Hallucination RateSource 53.5%67.8%Grok 4.5 leads
Multimodal
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Mistral Large 2Result
AA-MMMU-ProSource 80.4%Not comparable
Design Arena WebsiteSource 1328Not comparable
Inst. Following
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Mistral Large 2Result
AA-IFBenchSource 31.2%Not comparable
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Can I compare Grok 4.5 and Mistral Large 2 on BenchLM yet?

Not fully yet. BenchLM is tracking both models, but the sourced benchmark breakdown for this comparison is still coming soon.

Why does this comparison show “coming soon”?

BenchLM only shows category winners and benchmark-level calls when we have sourced results that can be compared fairly. For these models, the public benchmark coverage is not complete enough yet.

What data is available for Grok 4.5 and Mistral Large 2 today?

Grok 4.5: $2.00 input / $6.00 output per 1M tokens Mistral Large 2: Pricing unavailable Both model pages still include creator, context window, reasoning mode, and other metadata while benchmark coverage fills in.

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Last updated: July 18, 2026

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