In short
How they differ.
Worked out from the figures below. Prices and specs are the makers' own, read Oct 20, 2026.
- Mistral Large 4 is cheaper per output token: $2.09 against $6 per million tokens, so Grok 4.7 costs 2.9 times as much.
- Mistral Large 4 reads more at once: a context window of 1M tokens against 500K.
- No independent board we follow ranks both models yet.
Side by side
The specs.
| Grok 4.7 | Mistral Large 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Made by | SpaceXSI (formerly xAI) · US | Mistral AI · France |
| Released | Sep 21, 2026 | Oct 6, 2026 |
| Price per 1M tokens | $2 in / $6 out | $0.68 in / $2.09 out (sale price) |
| Context window | 500K | 1M |
| Takes in | text, image | text, image |
| Download and run it yourself | No | No |
| Size | Not published | 1.05T parameters, 52B active |
| Maker says | “Grok 4.7 is our most capable model for coding and knowledge work.” | “Mistral Large 4 is a state-of-the-art, open-weight, general-purpose multimodal model with a granular Mixture-of-Experts” |
| Sources | Prices, Oct 20, 2026 · Description | Prices, Oct 20, 2026 · Description |
Independent tests
Where they place.
Position on each board we follow (1 is best). Epoch AI's and Vectara's scores are shown; the other boards are linked for their own figures.
| Board | Grok 4.7 | Mistral Large 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDevLMArena, Oct 19, 2026 | #18 | Not listed |
| LMArena Agent ArenaLMArena, Oct 19, 2026 | #17 | Not listed |
| Humanity's Last ExamScale AI | #13 | Not listed |
| Vals IndexVals AI, Oct 19, 2026 | #11 | Not listed |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0Vals AI, Oct 19, 2026 | #20 | Not listed |
| Vibe Code BenchVals AI, Oct 18, 2026 | #12 | Not listed |
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