Model comparison
Codellama 70b Instruct vs Mixtral 8x7B
Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 3 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Codellama 70b Instruct leads 37.6 to 32.8.
Side by side
| Codellama 70b Instruct | Mixtral 8x7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 27.1 |
| Released | — | 2023-12-11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 32K |
| Max output | — | 32K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 38 |
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Category by category
Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 65.9% | 39.6% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 40.7% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1126 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 49.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | — | 49.7% |
Reasoning Codellama 70b Instruct leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1052 | 1115 |
| DTBench | — | 49.6% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.47 |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
| HellaSwag | — | 86.7% |
| PIQA | — | 83.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 77.2% |
Math Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | — | 10.5% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1147 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 10% |
| GSM8K | — | 74.4% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 30.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 33.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 29.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1088 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 87.3% |
| MMLU | — | 70.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 85.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 82.2% |
Multilingual Mixtral 8x7B leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 992 | 1077 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1055 |
| LMArena French | — | 1166 |
| LMArena German | — | 1114 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 931 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 968 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1090 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1111 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1024 | 1109 |
| IFEval | — | 57.5% |
Long Context Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1103 |
Writing & Preference Too close to call
Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1057 | 1132 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1109 |
| WildBench | — | 67.3% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1115 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Mixtral 8x7B?
Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?
Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 32.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Mixtral 8x7B share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.