Mistral Devstral Medium vs xAI: Grok 4
Compare Mistral Devstral Medium by Mistral AI against xAI: Grok 4 by xAI, in 12 community votes, xai: grok 4 wins 80% of head-to-head duels, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Image Generation: xAI: Grok 4 wins 100% of votes
Conversation: xAI: Grok 4 wins 100% of votes
Reasoning: Mistral Devstral Medium and xAI: Grok 4 are tied
Web Design: xAI: Grok 4 wins 100% of votes
Our Verdict
xAI: Grok 4Winner
Mistral Devstral MediumRunner-up
Pick xAI: Grok 4. In 12 blind votes, xAI: Grok 4 wins 80% of the time. That's not luck.
xAI: Grok 4 particularly excels in Image Generation, Conversation, Web Design. Mistral Devstral Medium is 7.5x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Clear winner
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Mistral Devstral Medium
Input
$0.40
7.5× cheaper
Output
$2.00
7.5× cheaper
xAI: Grok 4
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
Mistral Devstral Medium is cheaper on both — 7.5× input, 7.5× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
53%
xAI: Grok 4 uses 7.0x more emoji
Mistral Devstral Medium
xAI: Grok 4
50%Vocabulary53%
17wSentence Length18w
0.56Hedging0.67
4.5Bold2.7
5.3Lists2.7
0.00Emoji0.07
0.19Headings0.86
0.32Transitions0.04
Based on 21 + 21 text responses
Research
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