Model comparison

Llama 13b vs Mixtral 8x22B

Mixtral 8x22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.1 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Llama 13b Meta

24.4

Rank #348 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x22B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #333 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 13b scores higher in 1 category and Mixtral 8x22B in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mixtral 8x22B leads 36.9 to 13.8.

Side by side

Llama 13b and Mixtral 8x22B specifications
Llama 13bMixtral 8x22B
ProviderMetaMistral AI
Noometry Index24.427.1
Released2023-02-242024-04-17
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—64K
Max output—64K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked2134

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Category by category

Coding Mixtral 8x22B leads

Llama 13b: 21.4 (#337), Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Coding6831166
WeirdML—3.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct—40.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—50.2%
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—64.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 13b: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bMixtral 8x22B
Cybench—7.5%

Reasoning Mixtral 8x22B leads

Llama 13b: 14.0 (#329), Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Hard Prompts7281150
Epoch Capabilities Index100.58122.03
DTBench—55.1%
BIG-Bench Hard37.9%—
ForecastBench—56.3
HellaSwag79.2%—
LAMBADA75.2%—
PIQA80.1%—
WinoGrande73%—

Math Llama 13b leads

Llama 13b: 26.7 (#256), Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Math8381184
Omni-MATH—16.3%
MATH Level 5—24.2%
GSM8K20.6%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Llama 13b: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bMixtral 8x22B
MMLU47.7%77.8%
GPQA Diamond—34.1%
MMLU-Pro—46%
GPQA (HELM)—33.4%
LMArena Expert—1113
ARC (AI2) Challenge52.7%—
BoolQ78.7%—
OpenBookQA56.4%—
TriviaQA77.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 13b: —, Mixtral 8x22B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bMixtral 8x22B
ScienceQA43.3%—

Multilingual Mixtral 8x22B leads

Llama 13b: 16.6 (#297), Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Non-English8191128
LMArena Chinese—1116
LMArena French—1166
LMArena German—1141
LMArena Japanese—1037
LMArena Korean—1057
LMArena Russian—1158
LMArena Spanish—1151

Instruction Following Mixtral 8x22B leads

Llama 13b: 36.7 (#305), Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Instruction Following7811147
IFEval—72.4%

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 13b: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Longer Query—1144

Writing & Preference Mixtral 8x22B leads

Llama 13b: 13.8 (#312), Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Text8341162
LMArena Creative Writing7941141
LMArena Multi-Turn7531130
WildBench—71.1%

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 13b better than Mixtral 8x22B?

Mixtral 8x22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.1 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 13b or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?

Mixtral 8x22B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 24.2 versus 21.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 13b and Mixtral 8x22B share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 13b has 21 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.

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