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Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 vs SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5 SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20
Vendormistralaix-ai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score19.350.6
Input Price$1.50/M$1.25/M
Output Price$7.50/M$2.50/M
Context Window262,1442,000,000
Max Output209,7151,800,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index23.442.3
eqbench-55.8

Who wins by task?

TaskMistral: Mistral Medium 3.5SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20
SQL Generation 133 142
Code Review 130 146
Code Completion 115 121
Code Refactoring 131 150
Bug Fixing 134 150
Unit Test Generation 124 133
Code Documentation 126 139
Regex Writing 120 125
CI/CD Pipelines 120 129
Frontend Component Design 124 129
Data Analysis 127 133
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 128 138
ETL Scripting 125 139
JSON Extraction 122 123
Bulk Data Labeling 119 120
OCR / Document Parsing 129 134
Table Extraction from PDFs 129 134
Long-Document Summarization 132 151
Short-Form Summarization 115 118
Blog Post Writing 121 130

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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