Model comparison

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct vs Mixtral 8x7B

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.6 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct Meta

30.6

Rank #291 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x7B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #334 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct scores higher in 4 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 4 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads 71.1 to 51.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 41.6% for Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct and 10% for Mixtral 8x7B.
  • Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.32 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $0.70 for Mixtral 8x7B.
  • Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 32K.

Side by side

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct and Mixtral 8x7B specifications
Llama-3.3-70B-InstructMixtral 8x7B
ProviderMetaMistral AI
Noometry Index30.627.1
Released2024-12-062023-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K32K
Max output4K32K
Input $ / M tokens$0.10$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$0.32$0.70
Results tracked4338

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Category by category

Coding Mixtral 8x7B leads

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 31.0 (#290), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Coding12681126
SciCode26%—
WeirdML14.4%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.9%—
LiveBench Coding36.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.5%—
HumanEval+—39.6%
MBPP+—49.7%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 25.8 (#105), Mixtral 8x7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructMixtral 8x7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard31.9%—
BALROG23%—

Reasoning Mixtral 8x7B leads

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 14.1 (#327), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Hard Prompts12571115
DTBench59.5%49.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index127.33118.47
ForecastBench58.656.3
SimpleBench19.9%—
CritPt0%—
LiveBench Reasoning50.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis49.5%—
LMCA17.5%—
Adversarial NLI—55.2%
HellaSwag—86.7%
LiveBench50.2%—
PIQA—83.6%
WinoGrande—77.2%

Math Mixtral 8x7B leads

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 15.3 (#298), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Math12671147
MATH Level 541.6%10%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20255.1%—
Omni-MATH—10.5%
LiveBench Math42.2%—
GSM8K—74.4%

Knowledge Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.6 (#226), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructMixtral 8x7B
GPQA Diamond47.4%30.6%
LMArena Expert12251088
MMLU86.3%70.6%
MMLU-Pro—33.5%
Confabulations22.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate4.1%—
GPQA (HELM)—29.6%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—87.3%
OpenBookQA—85.8%
TriviaQA—82.2%

Multilingual Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 39.9 (#220), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Non-English12361077
LMArena Chinese12171055
LMArena French12811166
LMArena German12511114
LMArena Japanese1150931
LMArena Korean1143968
LMArena Russian12521090
LMArena Spanish12701111

Instruction Following Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 71.1 (#157), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Instruction Following12421109
LiveBench Instruction Following82.7%—
IFEval—57.5%

Long Context Mixtral 8x7B leads

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 26.4 (#295), Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Longer Query12561103
Fiction.LiveBench33.3%—

Writing & Preference Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 47.6 (#207), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Text12741132
LMArena Creative Writing12501109
LMArena Multi-Turn12801115
WildBench—67.3%
LiveBench Language39.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct better than Mixtral 8x7B?

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.6 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct or Mixtral 8x7B?

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.32 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x7B lists at $0.70 and $0.70.

Is Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?

Mixtral 8x7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.8 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct does, with 128K tokens against 32K.

How many benchmarks do Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct and Mixtral 8x7B share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has 43 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.

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