Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Mixtral 8x7B

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

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x7B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #334 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 6 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where Claude 3 Sonnet leads 62.8 to 51.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 40.6% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 30.6% for Mixtral 8x7B.
  • Mixtral 8x7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetMixtral 8x7B
ProviderAnthropicMistral AI
Noometry Index29.027.1
Released2024-02-292023-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—32K
Max output—32K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$0.70
Results tracked3038

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Category by category

Coding Mixtral 8x7B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Coding12231126
HumanEval+64%39.6%
MBPP+69.3%49.7%
WeirdML10.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—

Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Hard Prompts11971115
DTBench53.6%49.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7118.47
WinoGrande75.1%77.2%
Adversarial NLI—55.2%
ForecastBench—56.3
HellaSwag—86.7%
PIQA—83.6%

Math Mixtral 8x7B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Math12131147
MATH Level 518.2%10%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%—
Omni-MATH—10.5%
GSM8K—74.4%

Knowledge Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMixtral 8x7B
GPQA Diamond40.6%30.6%
LMArena Expert11731088
MMLU75.9%70.6%
MMLU-Pro—33.5%
GPQA (HELM)—29.6%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—87.3%
OpenBookQA—85.8%
TriviaQA—82.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Mixtral 8x7B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Non-English12051077
LMArena Chinese11891055
LMArena French12291166
LMArena German12041114
LMArena Japanese1131931
LMArena Korean1128968
LMArena Russian12271090
LMArena Spanish12041111

Instruction Following Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Instruction Following11991109
IFEval—57.5%

Long Context Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Longer Query12111103

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Text12181132
LMArena Creative Writing11861109
LMArena Multi-Turn12271115
WildBench—67.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Mixtral 8x7B?

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

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?

Mixtral 8x7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.8 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Mixtral 8x7B share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.

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