xAI: Grok 4.5 vs Mistral Small Creative
Compare xAI: Grok 4.5 by xAI against Mistral Small Creative by Mistral AI, context windows of 500K vs 33K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
xAI: Grok 4.5
Mistral Small CreativeRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, xAI: Grok 4.5 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Mistral Small Creative is 20x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
xAI: Grok 4.5
Input
$2.00
Output
$6.00
Mistral Small Creative
Input
$0.10
20× cheaper
Output
$0.30
20× cheaper
Mistral Small Creative is cheaper on both — 20× input, 20× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
36%
Mistral Small Creative uses 5.6x more emoji
xAI: Grok 4.5
Mistral Small Creative
61%Vocabulary49%
16wSentence Length18w
0.23Hedging0.40
2.5Bold13.7
2.4Lists4.9
0.09Emoji0.51
0.48Headings0.98
0.06Transitions0.07
Based on 27 + 24 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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