Model comparison

GPT-5 Mini vs Mixtral 8x7B

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

Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 Mini OpenAI

41.8

Rank #128 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x7B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #334 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 Mini 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 GPT-5 Mini leads 45.6 to 11.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 97.8% for GPT-5 Mini and 10% for Mixtral 8x7B.
  • Both cost about the same: $0.25 input and $2 output per million tokens.
  • GPT-5 Mini accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 32K.
  • Mixtral 8x7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5 Mini and Mixtral 8x7B specifications
GPT-5 MiniMixtral 8x7B
ProviderOpenAIMistral AI
Noometry Index41.827.1
Released2025-08-072023-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K32K
Max output128K32K
Input $ / M tokens$0.25$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$2$0.70
Results tracked6038

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 40.1 (#146), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Coding14061126
SWE-bench Verified64.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)59.8%—
SWE-bench Multilingual39.7%—
SciCode39.2%—
WeirdML52.7%—
ALE-Bench799.77—
AlgoTune1.38—
HumanEval+—39.6%
MBPP+—49.7%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5 Mini: 31.1 (#70), Mixtral 8x7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniMixtral 8x7B
Terminal-Bench34.8%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard55.5%—
Vending-Bench 2-31.18—

Reasoning GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 23.9 (#168), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Hard Prompts13801115
DTBench80.5%49.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.52118.47
ForecastBench6156.3
ARC-AGI-24.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark70.3%—
ARC-AGI-154.3%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles30%—
EnigmaEval8.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles10%—
LMCA34.2%—
Adversarial NLI—55.2%
HellaSwag—86.7%
PIQA—83.6%
WinoGrande—77.2%

Math GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 46.7 (#69), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniMixtral 8x7B
Omni-MATH72.2%10.5%
LMArena Math13781147
MATH Level 597.8%10%
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%—
GSM8K—74.4%

Knowledge GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 45.6 (#86), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniMixtral 8x7B
GPQA Diamond75%30.6%
MMLU-Pro83.5%33.5%
GPQA (HELM)75.6%29.6%
LMArena Expert13791088
Humanity's Last Exam19.4%—
SimpleQA Verified21.6%—
Confabulations13.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.9%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—87.3%
MMLU—70.6%
OpenBookQA—85.8%
TriviaQA—82.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5 Mini: 35.6 (#85), Mixtral 8x7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Vision1202—
VPCT40.2%—

Multilingual GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 48.9 (#137), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Non-English13631077
LMArena Chinese13851055
LMArena French13861166
LMArena German13661114
LMArena Japanese1341931
LMArena Korean1308968
LMArena Russian13621090
LMArena Spanish13551111

Instruction Following GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 76.2 (#46), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniMixtral 8x7B
IFEval92.7%57.5%
LMArena Instruction Following13571109

Long Context GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 41.9 (#132), Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Longer Query13551103
Fiction.LiveBench69.4%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 55.2 (#148), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Text13731132
LMArena Creative Writing13251109
WildBench85.5%67.3%
LMArena Multi-Turn13631115
Short-Story Creative Writing83.1%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1313—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 Mini better than Mixtral 8x7B?

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 8x7B?

GPT-5 Mini is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x7B lists at $0.70 and $0.70.

Is GPT-5 Mini or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?

GPT-5 Mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.1 versus 32.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5 Mini does, with 400K tokens against 32K.

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

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 Mini has 60 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.

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