Grok-3 Mini vs Mistral Large 2: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Grok-3 Mini is developed by xAI, while Mistral Large 2 comes from Mistral AI. Mistral Large 2 was released in July 2024, and Grok-3 Mini followed 7 months later in February 2025. Mistral Large 2 has a published size of about 123 billion parameters; xAI has not disclosed the parameter count of Grok-3 Mini.
We have 4 benchmark results for Grok-3 Mini and 5 benchmark results for Mistral Large 2, but they were measured on different benchmarks, so there is no like-for-like scoreboard.
Grok-3 Mini is the cheaper API at $0.30 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens, roughly 7 times cheaper than Mistral Large 2 at $2 and $6. Both accept a context window of about 128K tokens. Grok-3 Mini accepts text and images as input, while Mistral Large 2 accepts text.
| Characteristic | Grok-3 Mini | Mistral Large 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Company | xAI | Mistral AI |
| Release Date | February 16, 2025 | July 24, 2024 |
| Parameters | — | 123B |
| Multimodal | Yes | No |
| Context (input) | 128K | 128K |
| Context (output) | 8K | 128K |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.30 | $2.00 |
| Output Price / 1M | $0.50 | $6.00 |
| Average Score | 87.8% | 87.6% |
Verdict
Grok-3 Mini leads in 2 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Grok-3 Mini — 0.9, Mistral Large 2 — 0.9.
Grok-3 Mini is 10.0x cheaper: input $0.30/1M vs $2.00/1M tokens.
Same context size: 128K tokens.
Grok-3 Mini is newer: released 2/16/2025 vs 7/24/2024.
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