Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs Mixtral 8x22B

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x22B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #333 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Codellama 70b Instruct leads 37.6 to 24.2.

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and Mixtral 8x22B specifications
Codellama 70b InstructMixtral 8x22B
ProviderMetaMistral AI
Noometry Index33.727.1
Released—2024-04-17
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—64K
Max output—64K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked734

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Category by category

Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructMixtral 8x22B
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%40.6%
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%50.2%
HumanEval+65.9%72%
WeirdML—3.2%
LMArena Coding—1166
MBPP+—64.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructMixtral 8x22B
Cybench—7.5%

Reasoning Too close to call

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Hard Prompts10521150
DTBench—55.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—122.03
ForecastBench—56.3

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructMixtral 8x22B
Omni-MATH—16.3%
LMArena Math—1184
MATH Level 5—24.2%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructMixtral 8x22B
GPQA Diamond—34.1%
MMLU-Pro—46%
GPQA (HELM)—33.4%
LMArena Expert—1113
MMLU—77.8%

Multilingual Mixtral 8x22B leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Non-English9921128
LMArena Chinese—1116
LMArena French—1166
LMArena German—1141
LMArena Japanese—1037
LMArena Korean—1057
LMArena Russian—1158
LMArena Spanish—1151

Instruction Following Mixtral 8x22B leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Instruction Following10241147
IFEval—72.4%

Long Context Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Longer Query—1144

Writing & Preference Mixtral 8x22B leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Text10571162
LMArena Creative Writing—1141
WildBench—71.1%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1130

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Mixtral 8x22B?

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?

Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Mixtral 8x22B share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.

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