Model comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Mixtral 8x22B
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 34 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 34 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 8 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads 52.9 to 36.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 40% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 3.2% for Mixtral 8x22B.
- Mixtral 8x22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Mixtral 8x22B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 34.6 | 27.1 |
| Released | 2024-06-20 | 2024-04-17 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 64K |
| Max output | — | 64K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $6 |
| Results tracked | 60 | 34 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165), Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 40% | 3.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.8% | 40.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1342 | 1166 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58.6% | 50.2% |
| HumanEval+ | 81.7% | 72% |
| MBPP+ | 74.3% | 64.3% |
| Aider Polyglot | 51.6% | — |
| GSO | 4.6% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 67.1% | — |
| CadEval | 48% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.3 (#67), Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 17.5% | 7.5% |
| TheAgentCompany | 24% | — |
| BALROG | 32.6% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 45.2% | — |
Reasoning Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183), Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1305 | 1150 |
| DTBench | 67.8% | 55.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.55 | 122.03 |
| ForecastBench | 60.7 | 56.3 |
| SimpleBench | 41.4% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.9% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 56.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 55% | — |
| LiveBench | 59% | — |
Math Mixtral 8x22B leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288), Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 27.6% | 16.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1307 | 1184 |
| MATH Level 5 | 56.9% | 24.2% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.5% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 52.3% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 2.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
Knowledge Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245), Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 55.3% | 34.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.7% | 46% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 56.5% | 33.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1265 | 1113 |
| MMLU | 87.3% | 77.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.1% | — |
| Confabulations | 19.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.5 (#120), Mixtral 8x22B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1125 | — |
| Video-MME | 60% | — |
| GeoBench | 62% | — |
| VPCT | 33% | — |
Multilingual Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185), Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1283 | 1128 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1272 | 1116 |
| LMArena French | 1305 | 1166 |
| LMArena German | 1297 | 1141 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1234 | 1037 |
| LMArena Korean | 1200 | 1057 |
| LMArena Russian | 1306 | 1158 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1290 | 1151 |
Instruction Following Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 68.8 (#182), Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 85.5% | 72.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | 1147 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 69.3% | — |
Long Context Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167), Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1311 | 1144 |
Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164), Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1298 | 1162 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1292 | 1141 |
| WildBench | 79.2% | 71.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1326 | 1130 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 80.3% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1451 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 53.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Mixtral 8x22B?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.0 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Mixtral 8x22B share?
34 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.