Model comparison

GLM-5 vs Mixtral 8x7B

GLM-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.9 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index. Mixtral 8x7B costs 2.2× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

GLM-5 Z.ai (Zhipu)

45.9

Rank #59 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x7B Mistral AI

26.8

Rank #328 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-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-5 leads 52.2 to 11.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 87.8% for GLM-5 and 30.6% for Mixtral 8x7B.
  • Mixtral 8x7B is cheaper at $0.70 / $0.70 per million input/output tokens, against $1 / $3.20 for GLM-5.
  • GLM-5 accepts more context: 205K tokens versus 32K.

Side by side

GLM-5 and Mixtral 8x7B specifications
GLM-5Mixtral 8x7B
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)Mistral AI
Noometry Index45.926.8
Released2026-02-112023-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window205K32K
Max output131K32K
Input $ / M tokens$1$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$3.20$0.70
Results tracked4538

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Category by category

Coding GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 49.0 (#47), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.2 (#265)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Coding14611127
SWE-bench Verified72.1%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)72.8%—
LMArena WebDev1434—
SWE-bench Multilingual69.7%—
WeirdML48.2%—
ALE-Bench765.62—
HumanEval+—39.6%
MBPP+—49.7%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-5: 30.9 (#65), Mixtral 8x7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mixtral 8x7B
Terminal-Bench52.4%—
τ²-bench Airline82.5%—
τ²-bench Banking9.8%—
τ²-bench Retail73.7%—
τ²-bench Telecom86.8%—
Vending-Bench 24,432—

Reasoning GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 27.6 (#100), Mixtral 8x7B: 17.4 (#283)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Hard Prompts14511115
Epoch Capabilities Index145.84118.38
ForecastBench6156.3
ARC-AGI-24.9%—
SimpleBench53.2%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark75%—
NYT Connections (extended)74.8%—
ARC-AGI-144.7%—
Chess Puzzles10%—
DTBench—49.6%
Adversarial NLI—55.2%
HellaSwag—86.7%
PIQA—83.6%
WinoGrande—77.2%

Math GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 44.8 (#66), Mixtral 8x7B: 17.2 (#284)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Math14401147
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions65.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202580%—
Omni-MATH—10.5%
MATH Level 5—10%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)16.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—
GSM8K—74.4%

Knowledge GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 52.2 (#59), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#296)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mixtral 8x7B
GPQA Diamond87.8%30.6%
LMArena Expert14541088
MMLU-Pro—33.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.1%—
GPQA (HELM)—29.6%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—87.3%
MMLU—70.6%
OpenBookQA—85.8%
TriviaQA—82.2%

Multilingual GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 53.9 (#57), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.8 (#261)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Non-English14301077
LMArena Chinese15111055
LMArena French14551165
LMArena German14451114
LMArena Japanese1416931
LMArena Korean1421968
LMArena Russian14361090
LMArena Spanish14521110

Instruction Following GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 75.4 (#64), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.2 (#292)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Instruction Following14271110
IFEval—57.5%

Long Context GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 44.6 (#58), Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#255)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Longer Query14461103
CL-bench18.7%—

Writing & Preference GLM-5 leads

GLM-5: 66.2 (#38), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.4 (#265)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Text14461132
LMArena Creative Writing14381109
LMArena Multi-Turn14561115
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1601—
WildBench—67.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-5 better than Mixtral 8x7B?

GLM-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.9 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index. Mixtral 8x7B costs 2.2× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GLM-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-5 lists at $1 and $3.20.

Is GLM-5 or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?

GLM-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.0 versus 32.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-5 does, with 205K tokens against 32K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-5 and Mixtral 8x7B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-5 has 45 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.

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