Model comparison
Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Mixtral 8x7B
Claude 3.5 Haiku is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.2 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher in 6 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Claude 3.5 Haiku leads 62.9 to 51.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 46.4% for Claude 3.5 Haiku and 10% for Mixtral 8x7B.
- Mixtral 8x7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mixtral 8x7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.2 | 27.1 |
| Released | 2024-10-22 | 2023-12-11 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 32K |
| Max output | — | 32K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 49 | 38 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 32.9 (#265), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1286 | 1126 |
| Aider Polyglot | 28% | — |
| SciCode | 27.4% | — |
| WeirdML | 30.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 51.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59% | — |
| CadEval | 32% | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 39.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 49.7% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 28.0 (#95), Mixtral 8x7B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 19.3% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 17.7 (#290), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1251 | 1115 |
| DTBench | 56.7% | 49.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.15 | 118.47 |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 28.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.5% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.2% |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
| HellaSwag | — | 86.7% |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |
| PIQA | — | 83.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 77.2% |
Math Mixtral 8x7B leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 14.7 (#300), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 22.4% | 10.5% |
| LMArena Math | 1244 | 1147 |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.4% | 10% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 35.5% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 74.4% |
Knowledge Claude 3.5 Haiku leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 18.7 (#281), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 38.1% | 30.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | 60.5% | 33.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 36.3% | 29.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1208 | 1088 |
| MMLU | 74.3% | 70.6% |
| Confabulations | 36.7% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 87.3% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 85.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 82.2% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 26.8 (#117), Mixtral 8x7B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1092 | — |
| GeoBench | 34% | — |
Multilingual Claude 3.5 Haiku leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 40.0 (#218), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1238 | 1077 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1229 | 1055 |
| LMArena French | 1264 | 1166 |
| LMArena German | 1237 | 1114 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | 931 |
| LMArena Korean | 1173 | 968 |
| LMArena Russian | 1253 | 1090 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1261 | 1111 |
Instruction Following Claude 3.5 Haiku leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 62.9 (#234), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 79.2% | 57.5% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1241 | 1109 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 61.9% | — |
Long Context Claude 3.5 Haiku leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 38.3 (#200), Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1261 | 1103 |
Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Haiku leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 42.7 (#234), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | 1132 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1233 | 1109 |
| WildBench | 76% | 67.3% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1265 | 1115 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.5% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1146 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 35.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.5 Haiku better than Mixtral 8x7B?
Claude 3.5 Haiku is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.2 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3.5 Haiku or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (32.9 vs 32.8); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Haiku and Mixtral 8x7B share?
27 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Haiku has 49 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.