Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok 4 supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Mistral AI
Codestral is a 22-billion-parameter code-specialized model from Mistral AI, released in May 2024 as the company's first dedicated coding model, trained with focus on fill-in-the-middle (FIM) completion, code generation, and repair across 80+ programming languages. Unlike Mistral's general-purpose Apache 2.0 models, Codestral was released under a separate non-production research license, reflecting its positioning as a professional coding tool requiring commercial API access for production deployment. Its FIM support made it particularly valued for IDE integrations and code completion tools that need to insert code within existing contexts rather than only appending to the end.
xAI
Grok 4, released by xAI on July 10, 2025, is a large language model featuring first-principles reasoning and comprehensive multimodal support. It features a 260K token context window and demonstrated strong performance on advanced reasoning and coding benchmarks. Grok 4 targets complex multi-step reasoning tasks, scientific analysis, and agentic workflows via the xAI API.
1 year newer

Codestral 22B
Mistral AI
2024-05-29

Grok 4
xAI
2025-07-10
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Codestral 22B
Grok 4
xAI
Codestral 22B
Grok 4
Codestral 22B
Grok 4