Model comparison
Claude 2.1 vs Mixtral 8x7B
Mixtral 8x7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.1 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2.1 scores higher in 2 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Mixtral 8x7B leads 18.8 to 10.2.
- Mixtral 8x7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 2.1 | Mixtral 8x7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 25.2 | 27.1 |
| Released | 2023-11-21 | 2023-12-11 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 32K |
| Max output | — | 32K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 38 |
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Category by category
Coding Mixtral 8x7B leads
Claude 2.1: 26.2 (#327), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 7.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1126 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 39.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 49.7% |
Reasoning Claude 2.1 leads
Claude 2.1: 21.4 (#221), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51% | 49.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.27 | 118.47 |
| ForecastBench | 54.2 | 56.3 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1115 |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.2% |
| HellaSwag | — | 86.7% |
| PIQA | — | 83.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 77.2% |
Math Mixtral 8x7B leads
Claude 2.1: 10.2 (#315), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.9% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 10.5% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1147 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 10% |
| GSM8K | — | 74.4% |
Knowledge Claude 2.1 leads
Claude 2.1: 15.4 (#292), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | 30.6% |
| MMLU | 73.5% | 70.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 33.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 29.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1088 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 87.3% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 85.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 82.2% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1077 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1055 |
| LMArena French | — | 1166 |
| LMArena German | — | 1114 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 931 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 968 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1090 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1111 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 57.5% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1109 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1103 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1132 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1109 |
| WildBench | — | 67.3% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1115 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 2.1 better than Mixtral 8x7B?
Mixtral 8x7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.1 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 2.1 or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?
Mixtral 8x7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.8 versus 26.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 2.1 and Mixtral 8x7B share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2.1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.