Model comparison
Claude Instant vs Mixtral 8x22B
Mixtral 8x22B has enough public results to be ranked (#333); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 0 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 1 category, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 45.8% for Claude Instant and 55.1% for Mixtral 8x22B.
- Mixtral 8x22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Instant | Mixtral 8x22B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 27.1 |
| Released | 2023-08-09 | 2024-04-17 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 64K |
| Max output | — | 64K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $6 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 34 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | 72% |
| WeirdML | — | 3.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 40.6% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1166 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 50.2% |
| MBPP+ | — | 64.3% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Claude Instant: 19.6, Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 55.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | 122.03 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1150 |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
Math Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | — | 16.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1184 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 24.2% |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 73.4% | 77.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 34.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 46% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 33.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1113 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1128 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1116 |
| LMArena French | — | 1166 |
| LMArena German | — | 1141 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1037 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1057 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1158 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1151 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 72.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1147 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1144 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1162 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1141 |
| WildBench | — | 71.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1130 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Instant better than Mixtral 8x22B?
Mixtral 8x22B has enough public results to be ranked (#333); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Mixtral 8x22B share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.