Model comparison

GLM-5.1 vs Mixtral 8x7B

GLM-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.6 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index. Mixtral 8x7B costs 3.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-5.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

GLM-5.1 Z.ai (Zhipu)

47.6

Rank #51 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x7B Mistral AI

26.8

Rank #328 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-5.1 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-5.1 leads 55.0 to 11.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 89.9% for GLM-5.1 and 30.6% for Mixtral 8x7B.
  • Mixtral 8x7B is cheaper at $0.70 / $0.70 per million input/output tokens, against $1.40 / $4.40 for GLM-5.1.
  • GLM-5.1 accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 32K.

Side by side

GLM-5.1 and Mixtral 8x7B specifications
GLM-5.1Mixtral 8x7B
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)Mistral AI
Noometry Index47.626.8
Released2026-04-072023-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window200K32K
Max output131K32K
Input $ / M tokens$1.40$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$4.40$0.70
Results tracked4138

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Category by category

Coding GLM-5.1 leads

GLM-5.1: 48.5 (#52), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.2 (#265)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.1Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Coding14861127
SWE-bench Verified74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1509—
SciCode43.8%—
WeirdML57.1%—
ALE-Bench887.1—
HumanEval+—39.6%
MBPP+—49.7%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-5.1: 24.8 (#106), Mixtral 8x7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.1Mixtral 8x7B
APEX-Agents40.9%—
ExploitBench18.1%—
GBAEval0%—
Vending-Bench 25,634—

Reasoning GLM-5.1 leads

GLM-5.1: 38.2 (#57), Mixtral 8x7B: 17.4 (#283)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.1Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Hard Prompts14721115
Epoch Capabilities Index149.86118.38
SimpleBench55.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)77.7%—
CritPt4.6%—
Chess Puzzles19%—
Thematic Generalization69.8%—
DTBench—49.6%
Adversarial NLI—55.2%
ForecastBench—56.3
HellaSwag—86.7%
PIQA—83.6%
WinoGrande—77.2%

Math GLM-5.1 leads

GLM-5.1: 49.0 (#48), Mixtral 8x7B: 17.2 (#284)

Knowledge GLM-5.1 leads

GLM-5.1: 55.0 (#45), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#296)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.1Mixtral 8x7B
GPQA Diamond89.9%30.6%
LMArena Expert14771088
SimpleQA Verified34%—
MMLU-Pro—33.5%
GPQA (HELM)—29.6%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—87.3%
MMLU—70.6%
OpenBookQA—85.8%
TriviaQA—82.2%

Multilingual GLM-5.1 leads

GLM-5.1: 55.2 (#34), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.8 (#261)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.1Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Non-English14481077
LMArena Chinese15161055
LMArena French14781165
LMArena German14661114
LMArena Japanese1436931
LMArena Korean1423968
LMArena Russian14531090
LMArena Spanish14671110

Instruction Following GLM-5.1 leads

GLM-5.1: 76.5 (#41), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.2 (#292)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.1Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Instruction Following14511110
IFEval—57.5%

Long Context GLM-5.1 leads

GLM-5.1: 44.9 (#51), Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#255)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.1Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Longer Query14671103

Writing & Preference GLM-5.1 leads

GLM-5.1: 67.2 (#29), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.4 (#265)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.1Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Text14621132
LMArena Creative Writing14541109
LMArena Multi-Turn14731115
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1592—
WildBench—67.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-5.1 better than Mixtral 8x7B?

GLM-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.6 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index. Mixtral 8x7B costs 3.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-5.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GLM-5.1 or Mixtral 8x7B?

Mixtral 8x7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.70 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; GLM-5.1 lists at $1.40 and $4.40.

Is GLM-5.1 or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?

GLM-5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.5 versus 32.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-5.1 does, with 200K tokens against 32K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-5.1 and Mixtral 8x7B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-5.1 has 41 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.

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