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Grok 4.5vsMistral Medium 3.5
Grok 4.5 leads 1 of 1 shared benchmark. Grok 4.5 is 1.1x cheaper per token. Grok 4.5 has the larger context window (500K tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
1 – 0
Grok 4.5 leads
Cheaper per token
Grok 4.5
1.1x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Grok 4.5
500K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
— · 100%
xAI · Mistral AI
Grok 4.5
xAI · released 2026-07-08
textvision
Mistral Medium 3.5
Mistral AI · released 2026-04-28
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
1 shared · 5 only Grok 4.5 · 2 only Mistral Medium 3.5| Benchmark | Grok 4.5 | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 1 | ||||
| LMArena Elo | 1450.1 ↗ | 1420.6 ↗ | +29.5 | Grok 4.5 |
| Only Grok 4.5 reports · 5 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 93.4% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 24.4% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 57.2% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 97.8% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 48.3% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Only Mistral Medium 3.5 reports · 2 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | not reported | 77.6% ↗ | — | — |
| Tau3 Telecom | not reported | 91.4 ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Grok 4.5 minus Mistral Medium 3.5 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Grok 4.5 | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 500K tokens | 256K tokens | Grok 4.5 |
| Max output | — | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $2 ↗ | $1.5 ↗ | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| Output price / 1M | $6 ↗ | $7.5 ↗ | Grok 4.5 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.3 ↗ | $0.15 ↗ | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $8 | $9 | Grok 4.5 |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2026-07-08 | 2026-04-28 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 6 | 3 | — |
Reliability
Provider status
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