Grok 4.5 vs Mistral Large 2
Compare Grok 4.5 by xAI against Mistral Large 2 by Mistral AI, context windows of 500K vs 128K, tested across 23 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Grok 4.5
Mistral Large 2Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Grok 4.5 has the edge — newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Grok 4.5 is 4.0x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Grok 4.5
Input
$2.00
4.0× cheaper
Output
$6.00
4.0× cheaper
Mistral Large 2
Input
$8.00
Output
$24.00
Grok 4.5 is cheaper on both — 4.0× input, 4.0× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
35%
Mistral Large 2 uses 8.8x more emoji
Grok 4.5
Mistral Large 2
61%Vocabulary43%
16wSentence Length21w
0.23Hedging0.39
2.5Bold14.4
2.4Lists7.4
0.09Emoji0.80
0.48Headings1.41
0.06Transitions0.01
Based on 27 + 10 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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