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Grok 4.5 vs Mistral Medium 3

Data verified

Head-to-head evidence from 11 shared benchmark results across 4 categories. Overall scores shown here use the public BenchAlign v5 ranking lane.

76.72/100
Margin
33.5pts
← winning
43.2/100
0 category wins0 category wins

Public leaderboard positions: Grok 4.5 #7 (Supported); Mistral Medium 3 #156 (Estimated). Intervals and evidence labels describe ranking uncertainty, not a guarantee for a specific workload.

Evidence parity. Grok 4.5 and Mistral Medium 3 share 11 comparable benchmark results. 0 of 8 categories are comparable. 16 results are unique to Grok 4.5; 2 to Mistral Medium 3.

Updated July 18, 2026
Shared results
11
Grok 4.5 only
16
Mistral Medium 3 only
2
Comparable categories
0 / 8

Benchmark data for Grok 4.5 and Mistral Medium 3 is coming soon on BenchLM.

Confidence note. This is a partial-evidence comparison with 11 shared benchmark results across 4 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 is priced at $2.00 input / $6.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.40 input / $2.00 output per 1M tokens for Mistral Medium 3. Grok 4.5 has the larger context window at 500K, compared with 128K for Mistral Medium 3.

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 Medium 3
CategoryGrok 4.5ΔMistral Medium 3
AgenticGrok 4.583.3MarginNo overlapMistral Medium 3Not measured
CodingGrok 4.564.7MarginNo overlapMistral Medium 3Not measured

Operational comparison

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

MetricGrok 4.5Mistral Medium 3Comparison
Input / output priceUSD per 1M tokensGrok 4.5$2 input / $6 outputMistral Medium 3$0.4 input / $2 outputMistral Medium 3 has the lower combined listed price.
Generation speedtokens per secondGrok 4.5Not availableMistral Medium 357 tok/sA complete speed comparison is not available.
First-answer latencyseconds to first tokenGrok 4.5Not availableMistral Medium 31.20 sA complete latency comparison is not available.
Context windowmaximum listed tokensGrok 4.5500KMistral Medium 3128KGrok 4.5 lists the larger context window.

Benchmark Deep Dive

Agentic
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Mistral Medium 3Result
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 24.3%Not comparable
Coding
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Mistral Medium 3Result
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%33.1%Grok 4.5 leads
Reasoning
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Mistral Medium 3Result
AA-LCRSource 67.7%28.0%Grok 4.5 leads
CritPtSource 15.4%0.0%Grok 4.5 leads
Knowledge
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Mistral Medium 3Result
Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexSource 53.8%12.5%Grok 4.5 leads
AA-GPQA DiamondSource 93.1%57.8%Grok 4.5 leads
AA-HLESource 40.3%4.3%Grok 4.5 leads
AA-Omniscience IndexSource 26.4%-31.5%Grok 4.5 leads
AA-Omniscience AccuracySource 52.1%18.3%Grok 4.5 leads
AA-Omniscience Hallucination RateSource 53.5%60.9%Grok 4.5 leads
Multimodal
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Mistral Medium 3Result
AA-MMMU-ProSource 80.4%53.0%Grok 4.5 leads
Design Arena WebsiteSource 13281112Grok 4.5 leads
Inst. Following
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Mistral Medium 3Result
AA-IFBenchSource 39.3%Not comparable
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Can I compare Grok 4.5 and Mistral Medium 3 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 Medium 3 today?

Grok 4.5: $2.00 input / $6.00 output per 1M tokens Mistral Medium 3: $0.40 input / $2.00 output per 1M tokens 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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