Model comparison

Granite 4.0 H Small vs Mixtral 8x22B

Granite 4.0 H Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Granite 4.0 H Small IBM

36.5

Rank #214 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x22B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #333 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.0 H Small scores higher in 8 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Granite 4.0 H Small leads 32.0 to 15.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is IFEval: 89% for Granite 4.0 H Small and 72.4% for Mixtral 8x22B.

Side by side

Granite 4.0 H Small and Mixtral 8x22B specifications
Granite 4.0 H SmallMixtral 8x22B
ProviderIBMMistral AI
Noometry Index36.527.1
Released—2024-04-17
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—64K
Max output—64K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked1934

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Category by category

Coding Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 36.4 (#209), Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Coding12491166
WeirdML—3.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct—40.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—50.2%
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—64.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Granite 4.0 H Small: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallMixtral 8x22B
Cybench—7.5%

Reasoning Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 24.4 (#163), Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Hard Prompts12401150
DTBench—55.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—122.03
ForecastBench—56.3

Math Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 31.4 (#223), Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallMixtral 8x22B
Omni-MATH29.6%16.3%
LMArena Math12471184
MATH Level 5—24.2%

Knowledge Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 32.0 (#215), Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallMixtral 8x22B
MMLU-Pro56.9%46%
GPQA (HELM)38.3%33.4%
LMArena Expert12511113
GPQA Diamond—34.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.2%—
MMLU—77.8%

Multilingual Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 38.6 (#228), Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Non-English12161128
LMArena Chinese12491116
LMArena Russian12011158
LMArena Spanish12581151
LMArena French—1166
LMArena German—1141
LMArena Japanese—1037
LMArena Korean—1057

Instruction Following Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 68.7 (#183), Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallMixtral 8x22B
IFEval89%72.4%
LMArena Instruction Following12221147

Long Context Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 37.7 (#213), Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Longer Query12421144

Writing & Preference Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 43.8 (#227), Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Text12411162
LMArena Creative Writing12111141
WildBench73.9%71.1%
LMArena Multi-Turn12421130

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 4.0 H Small better than Mixtral 8x22B?

Granite 4.0 H Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Granite 4.0 H Small or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?

Granite 4.0 H Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.4 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 H Small and Mixtral 8x22B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 H Small has 19 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.

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