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Groq vs Mistral API: which is more reliable? (2026)
Groq is more reliable than Mistral API, scoring 91.4 vs 72.0 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Groq reported 3 incidents and Mistral API reported 16, with effective uptime of 99.94% and 99.63% respectively. Mistral API resolves incidents faster on average (1h 9m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Groq | Mistral API |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 91.4 | 72.0 |
| Rank (LLM API providers) | #3 | #7 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.94% | 99.63% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 3 | 16 |
| Partial / major outages | 1 | 5 |
| Avg time to resolve | 2h 16m | 1h 9m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Groq and Mistral API differ
- Mistral API reported 5.3× as many incidents as Groq over the last 90 days (16 vs 3).
- Mistral API had 5 partial or major outages, compared with 1 for Groq.
- Mistral API fixes problems faster: 1h 9m on average, against 2h 16m for Groq (2.0× quicker).
- Groq's longest outage on record lasted 3h 33m (Nov 18, 2025); Mistral API's lasted 3h 46m (Sep 10, 2026).
90-day uptime
Groq
Mistral API
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Groq incidents
- MaintenanceOct 16, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Website
- Partial outageOct 12, 2026 · resolved in 18m
Model Performance or Availability Issue
Affected: minimaxai/minimax-m2.7
- Degraded performanceOct 12, 2026 · resolved in 23m
GroqCloud Console Errors Affecting Multiple Regions
Affected: Website, API
- Degraded performanceOct 10, 2026 · resolved in 6h 5m
Model Performance or Availability Issue - minimaxai/minimax-m2.7
Affected: minimaxai/minimax-m2.7
- MaintenanceOct 8, 2026 · ongoing
Planned Maintenance: minimaxai/minimax-m2.7
Affected: minimaxai/minimax-m2.7
Recent Mistral API incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 23, 2026 · resolved in 2h 50m
- Degraded performanceOct 13, 2026 · resolved in 27m
- Partial outageOct 12, 2026 · resolved in 35m
- Major outageSep 29, 2026 · resolved in 2h 46m
- Degraded performanceSep 29, 2026 · resolved in 29m
- Partial outageSep 22, 2026 · resolved in 38m
Other LLM API providers to consider
- Perplexity API · #1 · 99.94% uptime
- Cohere · #2 · 99.94% uptime
- Cerebras Inference · #4 · 99.88% uptime
- xAI API · #5 · 99.76% uptime