Model comparison
Devstral Small 2505 vs Mixtral 8x7B
Devstral Small 2505 is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.9 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index.
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Mistral AISummary
- The widest gap is in coding, where Devstral Small 2505 leads 38.6 to 32.2.
- Devstral Small 2505 is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.30 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $0.70 for Mixtral 8x7B.
- Devstral Small 2505 accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 32K.
Side by side
| Devstral Small 2505 | Mixtral 8x7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 33.9 | 26.8 |
| Released | 2025-05-07 | 2023-12-11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 32K |
| Max output | 128K | 32K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.10 | $0.70 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.30 | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 4 | 38 |
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Category by category
Coding Devstral Small 2505 leads
Devstral Small 2505: 38.6 (#160), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.2 (#265)
| Benchmark | Devstral Small 2505 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 56.4% | — |
| SciCode | 28.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1127 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 39.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 49.7% |
Reasoning Devstral Small 2505 leads
Devstral Small 2505: 19.1 (#243), Mixtral 8x7B: 17.4 (#283)
| Benchmark | Devstral Small 2505 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.7% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1115 |
| DTBench | — | 49.6% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.38 |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
| HellaSwag | — | 86.7% |
| PIQA | — | 83.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 77.2% |
Math Not comparable
Devstral Small 2505: —, Mixtral 8x7B: 17.2 (#284)
| Benchmark | Devstral Small 2505 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | — | 10.5% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1147 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 10% |
| GSM8K | — | 74.4% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Devstral Small 2505: —, Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#296)
| Benchmark | Devstral Small 2505 | 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 Not comparable
Devstral Small 2505: —, Mixtral 8x7B: 29.8 (#261)
| Benchmark | Devstral Small 2505 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1077 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1055 |
| LMArena French | — | 1165 |
| LMArena German | — | 1114 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 931 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 968 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1090 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1110 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Devstral Small 2505: —, Mixtral 8x7B: 51.2 (#292)
| Benchmark | Devstral Small 2505 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 57.5% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1110 |
Long Context Not comparable
Devstral Small 2505: —, Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#255)
| Benchmark | Devstral Small 2505 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1103 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Devstral Small 2505: —, Mixtral 8x7B: 34.4 (#265)
| Benchmark | Devstral Small 2505 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1132 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1109 |
| WildBench | — | 67.3% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1115 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Devstral Small 2505 better than Mixtral 8x7B?
Devstral Small 2505 is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.9 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Devstral Small 2505 or Mixtral 8x7B?
Devstral Small 2505 is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x7B lists at $0.70 and $0.70.
Is Devstral Small 2505 or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?
Devstral Small 2505 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.6 versus 32.2 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Devstral Small 2505 does, with 128K tokens against 32K.
How many benchmarks do Devstral Small 2505 and Mixtral 8x7B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Devstral Small 2505 has 4 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.