# Grok 2 mini vs Mistral Small 3.1

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Grok 2 mini and Mistral Small 3.1 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/grok-2-mini-vs-mistral-small-3-1
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 5
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Grok 2 mini if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mistral Small 3.1 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Grok 2 mini leads overall 63 to 46.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MMLU in Knowledge, with scores of 86.2% and 80.6%.
- Mistral Small 3.1 also has the larger context window at 128K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Grok 2 mini | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | xAI | Mistral |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | Unknown | 128K |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 5 | 7 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Grok 2 mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mistral Small 3.1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Grok 2 mini | Mistral Small 3.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HumanEval | 85.7% | 88.4% | Mistral Small 3.1 |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Grok 2 mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mistral Small 3.1 public-lane score: 18.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Grok 2 mini | Mistral Small 3.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | 63.2% | 64.0% | Mistral Small 3.1 |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 49.3% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Grok 2 mini public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mistral Small 3.1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Grok 2 mini | Mistral Small 3.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 51% | 46.0% | Grok 2 mini |
| MMLU | 86.2% | 80.6% | Grok 2 mini |
| MMLU-Pro | 72% | 66.8% | Grok 2 mini |
| SimpleQA | Coming soon | 10.4% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Grok 2 mini or Mistral Small 3.1?

Grok 2 mini is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does Grok 2 mini cover on BenchLM?

Grok 2 mini currently has 5 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Mistral Small 3.1 cover on BenchLM?

Mistral Small 3.1 currently has 7 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

## Related Comparisons

- [Grok 2 mini vs Grok 2](/compare/grok-2-vs-grok-2-mini)
- [Mistral Small 3.1 vs Grok 2](/compare/grok-2-vs-mistral-small-3-1)
- [Grok 2 mini vs Claude Opus 5.5](/compare/claude-opus-5-5-vs-grok-2-mini)
- [Mistral Small 3.1 vs Claude Opus 5.5](/compare/claude-opus-5-5-vs-mistral-small-3-1)

## Explore More

- [Grok 2 mini profile](/models/grok-2-mini)
- [Mistral Small 3.1 profile](/models/mistral-small-3-1)
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- [Overall Rankings](/best/overall)