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Grok 3 vs Mistral Large: Pricing, Benchmarks & Verdict (2026)

Verdict

Mistral Large is significantly cheaper at $2.00/$6.00 per million tokens vs $3.00/$15.00. Grok 3 is stronger for coding with a coding ELO of 1290 vs 1240. Grok 3 ranks higher overall with an Arena ELO of 1300 vs 1245.

Side-by-Side Comparison

FeatureGrok 3Mistral Large
ProviderxAIMistral
Input Price / 1M tokens$3.00$2.00
Output Price / 1M tokens$15.00$6.00
Context Window128K128K
Max Output Tokens16,3848,192
Arena ELO1,3001,245
Coding ELO1,2901,240
TTFT (ms)300280
Tokens/sec8075
MultimodalYesNo
JSON ModeYesYes
Function CallingYesYes
VisionYesNo
When to Use Grok 3

Choose Grok 3 when you need: strong benchmark performance, good reasoning capabilities, vision and multimodal support, fast for its capability tier. It excels at general-purpose, reasoning, coding tasks.

Strengths:

  • Strong benchmark performance
  • Good reasoning capabilities
  • Vision and multimodal support
  • Fast for its capability tier

Best for:

general-purposereasoningcoding
When to Use Mistral Large

Choose Mistral Large when you need: strong multilingual support, good coding capabilities, european ai alternative, open-weight model available. It excels at coding, multilingual, general-purpose tasks. It is also the more cost-effective option between the two.

Strengths:

  • Strong multilingual support
  • Good coding capabilities
  • European AI alternative
  • Open-weight model available

Best for:

codingmultilingualgeneral-purpose

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