Side-by-side comparison of Grok-2 (xAI · USA) and Mistral Nemo (Mistral AI · France) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Grok-2 is rated conditional; Mistral Nemo is EU-ready. They part ways on licence: Grok-2 is "Grok 2 Community", Mistral Nemo is "Apache 2.0".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional xAI's first open-weights release. Commercial use allowed under the Grok 2 Community License with xAI's Acceptable Use Policy. Notable restriction: weights cannot be used to train other models (distillation ban). 500GB model, needs 8 GPUs with 40GB+. | EU-ready A 12B model from Paris-based Mistral AI, co-trained with NVIDIA and shipped under Apache 2.0 with a 128k context window and strong coverage of major EU languages. EU-headquartered vendor plus a fully permissive licence make this one of the cleanest open-weight choices for organisations prioritising AI Act and GDPR alignment, with the main caveat being the usual lack of detail on the training corpus. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-16 | 2026-05-19 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Grok 2 Community | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Yes (w/ AUP) | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed corpus |
| Origin | USA | EU (France) |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 14/100 | — |
| Speed | — | — |
| Blended price | — | — |
| Context window | — | — |
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