Model comparison

Granite 4.1 8b vs Mixtral 8x7B

Granite 4.1 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.8 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Granite 4.1 8b IBM

36.8

Rank #202 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x7B Mistral AI

26.8

Rank #328 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.1 8b scores higher in 7 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Granite 4.1 8b leads 35.5 to 11.0.

Side by side

Granite 4.1 8b and Mixtral 8x7B specifications
Granite 4.1 8bMixtral 8x7B
ProviderIBMMistral AI
Noometry Index36.826.8
Released—2023-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—32K
Max output—32K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$0.70
Results tracked1338

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Category by category

Coding Mixtral 8x7B leads

Granite 4.1 8b: 29.9 (#291), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.2 (#265)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.1 8bMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Coding13131127
LMArena WebDev1190—
HumanEval+—39.6%
MBPP+—49.7%

Reasoning Granite 4.1 8b leads

Granite 4.1 8b: 24.6 (#142), Mixtral 8x7B: 17.4 (#283)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.1 8bMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Hard Prompts12941115
DTBench—49.6%
Adversarial NLI—55.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—118.38
ForecastBench—56.3
HellaSwag—86.7%
PIQA—83.6%
WinoGrande—77.2%

Math Granite 4.1 8b leads

Granite 4.1 8b: 33.8 (#167), Mixtral 8x7B: 17.2 (#284)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.1 8bMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Math13111147
Omni-MATH—10.5%
MATH Level 5—10%
GSM8K—74.4%

Knowledge Granite 4.1 8b leads

Granite 4.1 8b: 35.5 (#171), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#296)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.1 8bMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Expert13101088
GPQA Diamond—30.6%
MMLU-Pro—33.5%
GPQA (HELM)—29.6%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—87.3%
MMLU—70.6%
OpenBookQA—85.8%
TriviaQA—82.2%

Multilingual Granite 4.1 8b leads

Granite 4.1 8b: 41.8 (#199), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.8 (#261)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.1 8bMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Non-English12611077
LMArena Chinese13351055
LMArena Russian12381090
LMArena French—1165
LMArena German—1114
LMArena Japanese—931
LMArena Korean—968
LMArena Spanish—1110

Instruction Following Granite 4.1 8b leads

Granite 4.1 8b: 67.0 (#198), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.2 (#292)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.1 8bMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Instruction Following12681110
IFEval—57.5%

Long Context Granite 4.1 8b leads

Granite 4.1 8b: 38.7 (#188), Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#255)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.1 8bMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Longer Query12751103

Writing & Preference Granite 4.1 8b leads

Granite 4.1 8b: 48.3 (#199), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.4 (#265)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.1 8bMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Text12911132
LMArena Creative Writing12491109
LMArena Multi-Turn12691115
WildBench—67.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 4.1 8b better than Mixtral 8x7B?

Granite 4.1 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.8 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Granite 4.1 8b or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?

Mixtral 8x7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.2 versus 29.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Granite 4.1 8b and Mixtral 8x7B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.1 8b has 13 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.

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