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Mistral 7B vs Grok 4.5

Mistral
Mistral 7B
SpaceXAI
Grok 4.5
Overview
CompanyMistralSpaceXAI
Release dateSep 27 2023Jul 8 2026
AccessOpen WeightProprietary
Benchmarks
Agentic coding
SWE-Bench Pro
64.7%
Multilingual coding
SWE-Bench Multilingual
78%
Agentic coding
DeepSWE 1.0
62%
Agentic terminal coding
Terminal-Bench 2.1
83.3%
Timeline
Release gapMistral 7B shipped 1015 days before Grok 4.5

Which is better: Mistral 7B or Grok 4.5?

Mistral 7B and Grok 4.5 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Mistral 7B shipped 1015 days before Grok 4.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Mistral 7B is open weight, while Grok 4.5 is proprietary.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Mistral 7B and Grok 4.5 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.

Frequently asked questions

Mistral 7B was released by Mistral on Sep 27 2023.

Grok 4.5 was released by SpaceXAI on Jul 8 2026.

Mistral 7B is an open weight model released by Mistral. Grok 4.5 is a proprietary model released by SpaceXAI.

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