Model comparison

GPT-6 Sol vs Mixtral 8x7B

GPT-6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index. Mixtral 8x7B costs 5.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-6 Sol's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

GPT-6 Sol OpenAI

61.8

Rank #12 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x7B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #334 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-6 Sol 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-6 Sol leads 87.2 to 18.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 94.3% for GPT-6 Sol and 30.6% for Mixtral 8x7B.
  • Mixtral 8x7B is cheaper at $0.70 / $0.70 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $10 for GPT-6 Sol.
  • GPT-6 Sol accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 32K.
  • Mixtral 8x7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-6 Sol and Mixtral 8x7B specifications
GPT-6 SolMixtral 8x7B
ProviderOpenAIMistral AI
Noometry Index61.827.1
Released2026-09-222023-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M32K
Max output128K32K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$10$0.70
Results tracked4538

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Category by category

Coding GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 60.1 (#11), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Coding14471126
DeepSWE68.8%—
FrontierCode49.3%—
LMArena WebDev1688—
SciCode57.6%—
ALE-Bench2,462—
HumanEval+—39.6%
MBPP+—49.7%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-6 Sol: 37.2 (#36), Mixtral 8x7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolMixtral 8x7B
APEX-Agents54.3%—
GDP.pdf26.4%—
Vending-Bench 214,428—

Reasoning GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 74.0 (#9), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Hard Prompts14181115
DTBench97.3%49.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index162.72118.47
ARC-AGI-289.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)90.1%—
ARC-AGI-195.5%—
CritPt30.9%—
EBR-Bench53.3%—
Mystery Game Puzzles56%—
LMCA59.1%—
Adversarial NLI—55.2%
ForecastBench—56.3
HellaSwag—86.7%
PIQA—83.6%
WinoGrande—77.2%

Math GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 87.2 (#7), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Math14021147
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)89.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 490%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench83%—
Omni-MATH—10.5%
MATH Level 5—10%
GSM8K—74.4%

Knowledge GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 64.8 (#15), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolMixtral 8x7B
GPQA Diamond94.3%30.6%
LMArena Expert14391088
SimpleQA Verified60.7%—
MMLU-Pro—33.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.5%—
GPQA (HELM)—29.6%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—87.3%
MMLU—70.6%
OpenBookQA—85.8%
TriviaQA—82.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-6 Sol: 47.6 (#10), Mixtral 8x7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Vision1245—
Blueprint-Bench 236.9%—
Furniture Assembly58.3%—

Multilingual GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 50.5 (#118), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Non-English13851077
LMArena Chinese14051055
LMArena French14101166
LMArena German13901114
LMArena Japanese1385931
LMArena Korean1341968
LMArena Russian14011090
LMArena Spanish13841111

Instruction Following GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 74.5 (#94), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Instruction Following14121109
IFEval—57.5%

Long Context GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 43.1 (#108), Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Longer Query14111103

Writing & Preference GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 71.9 (#18), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Text13951132
LMArena Creative Writing13781109
LMArena Multi-Turn14121115
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2125—
WildBench—67.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-6 Sol better than Mixtral 8x7B?

GPT-6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index. Mixtral 8x7B costs 5.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-6 Sol's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-6 Sol or Mixtral 8x7B?

Mixtral 8x7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.70 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; GPT-6 Sol lists at $2 and $10.

Is GPT-6 Sol or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?

GPT-6 Sol scores higher on coding benchmarks: 60.1 versus 32.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-6 Sol does, with 1.05M tokens against 32K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-6 Sol and Mixtral 8x7B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-6 Sol has 45 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.

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