Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Mixtral 8x22B

Claude 3 Opus is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.5 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 29 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x22B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #333 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 7 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 2 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3 Opus leads 47.2 to 36.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 19.2% for Claude 3 Opus and 3.2% for Mixtral 8x22B.
  • Mixtral 8x22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusMixtral 8x22B
ProviderAnthropicMistral AI
Noometry Index29.527.1
Released2024-02-292024-04-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—64K
Max output—64K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked4634

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMixtral 8x22B
WeirdML19.2%3.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%40.6%
LMArena Coding12641166
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%50.2%
HumanEval+77.4%72%
MBPP+73.3%64.3%
LiveBench Coding38.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMixtral 8x22B
Cybench10%7.5%
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Mixtral 8x22B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Hard Prompts12451150
DTBench61.6%55.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91122.03
ForecastBench58.456.3
SimpleBench23.5%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA17%—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Mixtral 8x22B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Math12731184
MATH Level 537.5%24.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%—
Omni-MATH—16.3%
LiveBench Math43.6%—

Knowledge Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMixtral 8x22B
GPQA Diamond47.2%34.1%
LMArena Expert12231113
MMLU84.6%77.8%
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
MMLU-Pro—46%
Confabulations22.7%—
GPQA (HELM)—33.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Mixtral 8x22B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Non-English12581128
LMArena Chinese12481116
LMArena French12751166
LMArena German12581141
LMArena Japanese12041037
LMArena Korean11871057
LMArena Russian12801158
LMArena Spanish12461151

Instruction Following Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Instruction Following12481147
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—
IFEval—72.4%

Long Context Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Longer Query12591144

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Text12621162
LMArena Creative Writing12351141
LMArena Multi-Turn12751130
WildBench—71.1%
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Mixtral 8x22B?

Claude 3 Opus is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.5 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?

Claude 3 Opus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Mixtral 8x22B share?

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.

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