Model comparison

GPT-5 Mini vs Mixtral 8x22B

GPT-5 Mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 Mini OpenAI

41.8

Rank #128 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x22B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #333 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 Mini scores higher in 9 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-5 Mini leads 45.6 to 15.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 97.8% for GPT-5 Mini and 24.2% for Mixtral 8x22B.
  • GPT-5 Mini is cheaper at $0.25 / $2 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Mixtral 8x22B.
  • GPT-5 Mini accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 64K.
  • Mixtral 8x22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5 Mini and Mixtral 8x22B specifications
GPT-5 MiniMixtral 8x22B
ProviderOpenAIMistral AI
Noometry Index41.827.1
Released2025-08-072024-04-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K64K
Max output128K64K
Input $ / M tokens$0.25$2
Output $ / M tokens$2$6
Results tracked6034

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 40.1 (#146), Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniMixtral 8x22B
WeirdML52.7%3.2%
LMArena Coding14061166
SWE-bench Verified64.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)59.8%—
SWE-bench Multilingual39.7%—
SciCode39.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—40.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—50.2%
ALE-Bench799.77—
AlgoTune1.38—
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—64.3%

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 31.1 (#70), Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniMixtral 8x22B
Terminal-Bench34.8%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard55.5%—
Cybench—7.5%
Vending-Bench 2-31.18—

Reasoning GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 23.9 (#168), Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Hard Prompts13801150
DTBench80.5%55.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.52122.03
ForecastBench6156.3
ARC-AGI-24.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark70.3%—
ARC-AGI-154.3%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles30%—
EnigmaEval8.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles10%—
LMCA34.2%—

Math GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 46.7 (#69), Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniMixtral 8x22B
Omni-MATH72.2%16.3%
LMArena Math13781184
MATH Level 597.8%24.2%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)46.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 412.2%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202586.7%—
ProofBench9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)27.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)6.3%—

Knowledge GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 45.6 (#86), Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniMixtral 8x22B
GPQA Diamond75%34.1%
MMLU-Pro83.5%46%
GPQA (HELM)75.6%33.4%
LMArena Expert13791113
Humanity's Last Exam19.4%—
SimpleQA Verified21.6%—
Confabulations13.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.9%—
MMLU—77.8%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5 Mini: 35.6 (#85), Mixtral 8x22B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Vision1202—
VPCT40.2%—

Multilingual GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 48.9 (#137), Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Non-English13631128
LMArena Chinese13851116
LMArena French13861166
LMArena German13661141
LMArena Japanese13411037
LMArena Korean13081057
LMArena Russian13621158
LMArena Spanish13551151

Instruction Following GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 76.2 (#46), Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniMixtral 8x22B
IFEval92.7%72.4%
LMArena Instruction Following13571147

Long Context GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 41.9 (#132), Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Longer Query13551144
Fiction.LiveBench69.4%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 55.2 (#148), Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Text13731162
LMArena Creative Writing13251141
WildBench85.5%71.1%
LMArena Multi-Turn13631130
Short-Story Creative Writing83.1%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1313—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 Mini better than Mixtral 8x22B?

GPT-5 Mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5 Mini or Mixtral 8x22B?

GPT-5 Mini is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x22B lists at $2 and $6.

Is GPT-5 Mini or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?

GPT-5 Mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.1 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5 Mini does, with 400K tokens against 64K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 Mini and Mixtral 8x22B share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 Mini has 60 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.

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