Models

Grok 4.5 vs Mistral Large 3

Compare Grok 4.5 from Grok and Mistral Large 3 from Mistral on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

GrokGrok 4.5MistralMistral Large 3
Grok logo
Grok 4.5
Grok · text, image → text

Grok 4.5 was trained on datasets spanning knowledge in coding, science, engineering, and math. With both intelligent and efficient reasoning, Grok 4.5 excels at real engineering tasks and exceeds comparable leading models at these tasks.

Input$2 /M
Output$6 /M
Cache read$0.5 /M
Mistral logo
Mistral Large 3
Mistral · text, image → text

Mistral Large 3 is a MoE model with 67.5B total parameters and 41B active parameters, supporting a 256K-token context window. Trained from scratch on 3,000 NVIDIA H200 GPUs, it is one of the strongest permissively licensed open-weight models available. Designed for advanced reasoning and long-context understanding, Mistral Large 3 delivers performance on par with the best instruction-tuned open-weight models for general-purpose tasks, while also offering image understanding capabilities. Its multilingual strengths are particularly notable for non-English/Chinese languages, making it well-suited for global applications. Typical use cases include enterprise assistants, multilingual customer support, content generation and editing, data analysis over long documents, code assistance, and research workflows that require handling large corpora or complex instructions. With its MoE architecture, Mistral Large 3 balances strong performance with efficient inference, providing a versatile backbone for building reliable, production-grade AI systems.

Input$0.5 /M
Output$1.5 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Grok 4.5
Mistral Large 3
Input /M
$2
$0.5
Output /M
$6
$1.5
Cache read /M
$0.5
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Context length
500,000
256,000
Max output
500,000
256,000
Time to First Token
2.8 s
1.5 s
Throughput
31.5 tok/s
48.3 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputslong context
function callingstructured outputs
API Formats
Released
July 2026
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Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
grok-4.5mistral-large-3
1360142014801540
Overall
14161471
Coding
14681523
Math
14021479
Hard prompts
14321495
Instruction following
14041466
Multi-turn
14211476
Creative writing
13761451
Longer query
14171487
Chinese
14271512
English
14291476
WebDev Arena
grok-4.5mistral-large-3
1200132014401560
Overall
12241556
React
15591559
HTML
12301571
Gaming
15891589
Simulations
15851585
Data analytics
15211521

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Mistral Large 3
$52.50 /mo
Grok 4.5
$210 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Grok 4.5, Mistral Large 3?

Mistral Large 3: $1.5/M output tokens; Grok 4.5: $6/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Grok 4.5: 1523; Mistral Large 3: 1468 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Mistral Large 3: 1.5s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

Grok 4.5 accepts 500,000 and Mistral Large 3 accepts 256,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 500,000 tokens on Grok 4.5 and 256,000 tokens on Mistral Large 3.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Mistral Large 3 at 48.3 tok/s and Grok 4.5 at 31.5 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Grok 4.5 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and long context; Mistral Large 3 accepts text and image input and supports function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call Grok 4.5 and Mistral Large 3 with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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