Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Mixtral 8x22B

Claude 3 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x22B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #333 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 7 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Mixtral 8x22B leads 22.9 to 10.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 10.2% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 3.2% for Mixtral 8x22B.
  • Mixtral 8x22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetMixtral 8x22B
ProviderAnthropicMistral AI
Noometry Index29.027.1
Released2024-02-292024-04-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—64K
Max output—64K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked3034

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMixtral 8x22B
WeirdML10.2%3.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%40.6%
LMArena Coding12231166
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%50.2%
HumanEval+64%72%
MBPP+69.3%64.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMixtral 8x22B
Cybench—7.5%

Reasoning Too close to call

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Hard Prompts11971150
DTBench53.6%55.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7122.03
ForecastBench—56.3
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Mixtral 8x22B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Math12131184
MATH Level 518.2%24.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%—
Omni-MATH—16.3%

Knowledge Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMixtral 8x22B
GPQA Diamond40.6%34.1%
LMArena Expert11731113
MMLU75.9%77.8%
MMLU-Pro—46%
GPQA (HELM)—33.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Mixtral 8x22B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Non-English12051128
LMArena Chinese11891116
LMArena French12291166
LMArena German12041141
LMArena Japanese11311037
LMArena Korean11281057
LMArena Russian12271158
LMArena Spanish12041151

Instruction Following Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Instruction Following11991147
IFEval—72.4%

Long Context Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Longer Query12111144

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Text12181162
LMArena Creative Writing11861141
LMArena Multi-Turn12271130
WildBench—71.1%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Mixtral 8x22B?

Claude 3 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

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

Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.6 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.

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

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.

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