Model comparison

GPT-5.4 vs Mixtral 8x7B

GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index. Mixtral 8x7B costs 8.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.4's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.4 OpenAI

59.4

Rank #16 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x7B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #334 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.4 scores higher in 8 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.4 leads 73.5 to 18.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 93.3% for GPT-5.4 and 30.6% for Mixtral 8x7B.
  • Mixtral 8x7B is cheaper at $0.70 / $0.70 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $15 for GPT-5.4.
  • GPT-5.4 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 32K.
  • Mixtral 8x7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.4 and Mixtral 8x7B specifications
GPT-5.4Mixtral 8x7B
ProviderOpenAIMistral AI
Noometry Index59.427.1
Released2026-03-052023-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M32K
Max output128K32K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$15$0.70
Results tracked6838

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 52.6 (#33), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Coding14971126
SWE-bench Verified76.9%—
DeepSWE51.8%—
LMArena WebDev1465—
SciCode56.6%—
GSO31.4%—
WeirdML77.7%—
MirrorCode15.6%—
ALE-Bench1,607—
AlgoTune1.85—
HumanEval+—39.6%
MBPP+—49.7%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 46.5 (#13), Mixtral 8x7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mixtral 8x7B
Terminal-Bench81.8%—
APEX-Agents52.4%—
τ²-bench Banking39.4%—
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 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Hard Prompts14851115
DTBench94.4%49.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index156.81118.47
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%—
Adversarial NLI—55.2%
HellaSwag—86.7%
PIQA—83.6%
WinoGrande—77.2%

Math GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 73.5 (#19), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)

Knowledge GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 65.3 (#14), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mixtral 8x7B
GPQA Diamond93.3%30.6%
LMArena Expert15071088
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
SimpleQA Verified45.1%—
MMLU-Pro—33.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%—
GPQA (HELM)—29.6%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—87.3%
MMLU—70.6%
OpenBookQA—85.8%
TriviaQA—82.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 43.7 (#20), Mixtral 8x7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Vision1303—
Blueprint-Bench 227.1%—
Furniture Assembly37.5%—
LMArena Document1471—

Multilingual GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 56.2 (#23), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Non-English14651077
LMArena Chinese15191055
LMArena French14931166
LMArena German14721114
LMArena Japanese1485931
LMArena Korean1448968
LMArena Russian14801090
LMArena Spanish14541111

Instruction Following GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 77.1 (#27), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Instruction Following14691109
IFEval—57.5%

Long Context GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 50.3 (#8), Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Longer Query14731103
CL-bench27.9%—
CL-bench Life21.7%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 71.9 (#17), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Text14691132
LMArena Creative Writing14391109
LMArena Multi-Turn14821115
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
WildBench—67.3%
EQ-Bench 41272—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.4 better than Mixtral 8x7B?

GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index. Mixtral 8x7B costs 8.0× 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 8x7B?

Mixtral 8x7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.70 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; GPT-5.4 lists at $2.50 and $15.

Is GPT-5.4 or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?

GPT-5.4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.6 versus 32.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.4 does, with 1.05M tokens against 32K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.4 and Mixtral 8x7B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.4 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.

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