Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok-2 leads with 32.6% higher average benchmark score. Ministral 8B Instruct offers 120.0K more tokens in context window than Grok-2. Ministral 8B Instruct is $11.80 cheaper per million tokens. Grok-2 supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Grok-2 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
xAI
Grok 2 was developed as the second generation of xAI's language model family, designed to provide enhanced reasoning, knowledge, and conversational abilities. Built with architectural improvements and expanded training, it represents a significant advancement in xAI's model capabilities.
Mistral AI
Ministral 8B was developed as a compact yet capable model from Mistral AI, designed to provide strong instruction-following with just 8 billion parameters. Built for applications requiring efficient deployment while maintaining reliable performance, it represents Mistral's smallest production-ready offering.
2 months newer

Grok-2
xAI
2024-08-13

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
2024-10-16
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Grok-2

Ministral 8B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

Grok-2

Ministral 8B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Grok-2
xAI

Ministral 8B Instruct

Grok-2

Ministral 8B Instruct

Grok-2

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI