Model comparison

GPT-5 Nano vs Mixtral 8x22B

GPT-5 Nano is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.5 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 Nano OpenAI

33.5

Rank #241 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x22B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #333 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 Nano scores higher in 7 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 2 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-5 Nano leads 35.9 to 15.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 95.2% for GPT-5 Nano and 24.2% for Mixtral 8x22B.
  • GPT-5 Nano is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Mixtral 8x22B.
  • GPT-5 Nano accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 64K.
  • Mixtral 8x22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5 Nano and Mixtral 8x22B specifications
GPT-5 NanoMixtral 8x22B
ProviderOpenAIMistral AI
Noometry Index33.527.1
Released2025-08-072024-04-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K64K
Max output128K64K
Input $ / M tokens$0.05$2
Output $ / M tokens$0.40$6
Results tracked4934

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 Nano leads

GPT-5 Nano: 33.6 (#254), Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoMixtral 8x22B
WeirdML38.1%3.2%
LMArena Coding13511166
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)34.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—40.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—50.2%
ALE-Bench718.67—
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—64.3%

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5 Nano leads

GPT-5 Nano: 25.8 (#106), Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoMixtral 8x22B
Terminal-Bench21.8%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard51.5%—
Cybench—7.5%

Reasoning Mixtral 8x22B leads

GPT-5 Nano: 16.3 (#306), Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Hard Prompts13281150
DTBench62.7%55.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index139.38122.03
ForecastBench59.156.3
ARC-AGI-22.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark62.2%—
ARC-AGI-120.7%—
Chess Puzzles27%—
Mystery Game Puzzles9%—
LMCA7.9%—

Math GPT-5 Nano leads

GPT-5 Nano: 29.4 (#241), Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoMixtral 8x22B
Omni-MATH54.6%16.3%
LMArena Math13171184
MATH Level 595.2%24.2%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)20%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202581.1%—
ProofBench12%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)8.3%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge GPT-5 Nano leads

GPT-5 Nano: 35.9 (#178), Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoMixtral 8x22B
GPQA Diamond69.4%34.1%
MMLU-Pro77.8%46%
GPQA (HELM)67.9%33.4%
LMArena Expert13211113
SimpleQA Verified11.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.5%—
MMLU—77.8%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 31.3 (#108), Mixtral 8x22B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Vision1159—
VPCT37.2%—

Multilingual GPT-5 Nano leads

GPT-5 Nano: 45.3 (#172), Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Non-English13131128
LMArena Chinese13561116
LMArena German13271141
LMArena Japanese12261037
LMArena Korean12691057
LMArena Russian12961158
LMArena Spanish13601151
LMArena French—1166

Instruction Following GPT-5 Nano leads

GPT-5 Nano: 75.0 (#79), Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoMixtral 8x22B
IFEval93.2%72.4%
LMArena Instruction Following13061147

Long Context Mixtral 8x22B leads

GPT-5 Nano: 31.3 (#281), Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Longer Query13121144
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5 Nano leads

GPT-5 Nano: 39.1 (#249), Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Text13201162
LMArena Creative Writing12491141
WildBench80.6%71.1%
LMArena Multi-Turn13111130
EQ-Bench Creative Writing705—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 Nano better than Mixtral 8x22B?

GPT-5 Nano is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.5 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

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

GPT-5 Nano is cheaper. It lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x22B lists at $2 and $6.

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

GPT-5 Nano scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.6 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

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

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

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 Nano has 49 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.

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