Model comparison
GLM-4.5 vs Mixtral 8x7B
GLM-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where GLM-4.5 leads 35.9 to 11.0.
- Mixtral 8x7B is cheaper at $0.70 / $0.70 per million input/output tokens, against $0.60 / $2.20 for GLM-4.5.
- GLM-4.5 accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 32K.
Side by side
| GLM-4.5 | Mixtral 8x7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 42.0 | 27.1 |
| Released | 2025-07-27 | 2023-12-11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | 32K |
| Max output | 98K | 32K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.60 | $0.70 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2.20 | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 27 | 38 |
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Category by category
Coding GLM-4.5 leads
GLM-4.5: 41.4 (#125), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1434 | 1126 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 54.2% | — |
| WeirdML | 40.6% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 344.82 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.52 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 39.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 49.7% |
Reasoning GLM-4.5 leads
GLM-4.5: 28.6 (#100), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1429 | 1115 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 57.9% | — |
| 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 GLM-4.5 leads
GLM-4.5: 39.0 (#116), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1427 | 1147 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 10.5% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 10% |
| GSM8K | — | 74.4% |
Knowledge GLM-4.5 leads
GLM-4.5: 35.9 (#179), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1433 | 1088 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 30.6% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 33.5% |
| Confabulations | 11.3% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 29.6% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 87.3% |
| MMLU | — | 70.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 85.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 82.2% |
Multilingual GLM-4.5 leads
GLM-4.5: 52.8 (#77), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1417 | 1077 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1465 | 1055 |
| LMArena French | 1418 | 1166 |
| LMArena German | 1407 | 1114 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1415 | 931 |
| LMArena Korean | 1380 | 968 |
| LMArena Russian | 1414 | 1090 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1454 | 1111 |
Instruction Following GLM-4.5 leads
GLM-4.5: 74.1 (#104), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1404 | 1109 |
| IFEval | — | 57.5% |
Long Context GLM-4.5 leads
GLM-4.5: 38.2 (#201), Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1412 | 1103 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 58.3% | — |
Writing & Preference GLM-4.5 leads
GLM-4.5: 57.5 (#127), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)
| Benchmark | GLM-4.5 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1430 | 1132 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1395 | 1109 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1415 | 1115 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.4% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1343 | — |
| WildBench | — | 67.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is GLM-4.5 better than Mixtral 8x7B?
GLM-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, GLM-4.5 or Mixtral 8x7B?
Mixtral 8x7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.70 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; GLM-4.5 lists at $0.60 and $2.20.
Is GLM-4.5 or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?
GLM-4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.4 versus 32.8 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
GLM-4.5 does, with 131K tokens against 32K.
How many benchmarks do GLM-4.5 and Mixtral 8x7B share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.5 has 27 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.