Model comparison

GPT-5.4 vs Mixtral 8x22B

GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index. Mixtral 8x22B costs 1.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.4's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.4 OpenAI

59.4

Rank #16 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x22B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #333 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.4 scores higher in 9 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.4 leads 73.5 to 22.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 77.7% for GPT-5.4 and 3.2% for Mixtral 8x22B.
  • Mixtral 8x22B is cheaper at $2 / $6 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $15 for GPT-5.4.
  • GPT-5.4 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 64K.
  • Mixtral 8x22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.4 and Mixtral 8x22B specifications
GPT-5.4Mixtral 8x22B
ProviderOpenAIMistral AI
Noometry Index59.427.1
Released2026-03-052024-04-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M64K
Max output128K64K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$2
Output $ / M tokens$15$6
Results tracked6834

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 52.6 (#33), Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mixtral 8x22B
WeirdML77.7%3.2%
LMArena Coding14971166
SWE-bench Verified76.9%—
DeepSWE51.8%—
LMArena WebDev1465—
SciCode56.6%—
GSO31.4%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—40.6%
MirrorCode15.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete—50.2%
ALE-Bench1,607—
AlgoTune1.85—
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—64.3%

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 46.5 (#13), Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mixtral 8x22B
Terminal-Bench81.8%—
APEX-Agents52.4%—
τ²-bench Banking39.4%—
Cybench—7.5%
DeepResearch Bench35.1%—
PostTrainBench19%—
GBAEval45.1%—
LMArena Search1197—
METR Time Horizons74.3%—
Vending-Bench 26,144—

Reasoning GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 61.8 (#19), Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mixtral 8x22B
LMArena Hard Prompts14851150
DTBench94.4%55.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index156.81122.03
ForecastBench59.556.3
ARC-AGI-274%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark63.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.3%—
ARC-AGI-193.7%—
CritPt23.4%—
Chess Puzzles44%—
EnigmaEval16%—
Thematic Generalization80%—
EBR-Bench25.4%—
Mystery Game Puzzles37%—
LMCA52%—

Math GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 73.5 (#19), Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)

Knowledge GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 65.3 (#14), Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mixtral 8x22B
GPQA Diamond93.3%34.1%
LMArena Expert15071113
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
SimpleQA Verified45.1%—
MMLU-Pro—46%
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%—
GPQA (HELM)—33.4%
MMLU—77.8%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 43.7 (#20), Mixtral 8x22B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mixtral 8x22B
LMArena Vision1303—
Blueprint-Bench 227.1%—
Furniture Assembly37.5%—
LMArena Document1471—

Multilingual GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 56.2 (#23), Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mixtral 8x22B
LMArena Non-English14651128
LMArena Chinese15191116
LMArena French14931166
LMArena German14721141
LMArena Japanese14851037
LMArena Korean14481057
LMArena Russian14801158
LMArena Spanish14541151

Instruction Following GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 77.1 (#27), Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mixtral 8x22B
LMArena Instruction Following14691147
IFEval—72.4%

Long Context GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 50.3 (#8), Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mixtral 8x22B
LMArena Longer Query14731144
CL-bench27.9%—
CL-bench Life21.7%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 71.9 (#17), Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mixtral 8x22B
LMArena Text14691162
LMArena Creative Writing14391141
LMArena Multi-Turn14821130
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
WildBench—71.1%
EQ-Bench 41272—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.4 better than Mixtral 8x22B?

GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index. Mixtral 8x22B costs 1.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.4's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.4 or Mixtral 8x22B?

Mixtral 8x22B is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; GPT-5.4 lists at $2.50 and $15.

Is GPT-5.4 or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?

GPT-5.4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.6 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.4 does, with 1.05M tokens against 64K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.4 and Mixtral 8x22B share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.4 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.

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