Model comparison

Llama 4 Maverick vs Mixtral 8x7B

Llama 4 Maverick is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.9 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.

Llama 4 Maverick Meta

30.9

Rank #282 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x7B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #334 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 4 Maverick scores higher in 5 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 4 Maverick leads 33.4 to 11.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 73% for Llama 4 Maverick and 10% for Mixtral 8x7B.
  • Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper at $0.19 / $0.65 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $0.70 for Mixtral 8x7B.
  • Llama 4 Maverick accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 32K.

Side by side

Llama 4 Maverick and Mixtral 8x7B specifications
Llama 4 MaverickMixtral 8x7B
ProviderMetaMistral AI
Noometry Index30.927.1
Released2025-04-052023-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K32K
Max output4K32K
Input $ / M tokens$0.19$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$0.65$0.70
Results tracked5438

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Category by category

Coding Mixtral 8x7B leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Coding13021126
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)21%—
Aider Polyglot15.6%—
SciCode33.1%—
WeirdML24.5%—
BigCodeBench Instruct49.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete61.4%—
ALE-Bench172.97—
HumanEval+—39.6%
MBPP+—49.7%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91), Mixtral 8x7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickMixtral 8x7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard37.3%—

Reasoning Mixtral 8x7B leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Hard Prompts12811115
DTBench61.9%49.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index132.2118.47
ForecastBench57.556.3
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench27.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark55.9%—
NYT Connections (extended)8%—
ARC-AGI-14.4%—
CritPt0%—
EnigmaEval0.6%—
LMCA15.9%—
Adversarial NLI—55.2%
HellaSwag—86.7%
PIQA—83.6%
WinoGrande—77.2%

Math Llama 4 Maverick leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickMixtral 8x7B
Omni-MATH42.2%10.5%
LMArena Math12991147
MATH Level 573%10%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202520.6%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.7%—
GSM8K—74.4%

Knowledge Llama 4 Maverick leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickMixtral 8x7B
GPQA Diamond67%30.6%
MMLU-Pro81%33.5%
GPQA (HELM)65%29.6%
LMArena Expert12591088
Humanity's Last Exam5.7%—
Confabulations22.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—87.3%
MMLU—70.6%
OpenBookQA—85.8%
TriviaQA—82.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105), Mixtral 8x7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Vision1142—
GeoBench52%—
SpatialViz-Bench31.8%—

Multilingual Llama 4 Maverick leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Non-English12691077
LMArena Chinese12771055
LMArena French12591166
LMArena German12911114
LMArena Japanese1207931
LMArena Korean1203968
LMArena Russian12861090
LMArena Spanish12931111

Instruction Following Llama 4 Maverick leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickMixtral 8x7B
IFEval90.8%57.5%
LMArena Instruction Following12671109

Long Context Mixtral 8x7B leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279), Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Longer Query12801103
Fiction.LiveBench46.2%—

Writing & Preference Llama 4 Maverick leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Text12871132
LMArena Creative Writing12671109
WildBench80%67.3%
LMArena Multi-Turn12891115
Short-Story Creative Writing62%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing860—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 4 Maverick better than Mixtral 8x7B?

Llama 4 Maverick is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.9 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Maverick or Mixtral 8x7B?

Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper. It lists at $0.19 per million input tokens and $0.65 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x7B lists at $0.70 and $0.70.

Is Llama 4 Maverick or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?

Mixtral 8x7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.8 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Llama 4 Maverick does, with 128K tokens against 32K.

How many benchmarks do Llama 4 Maverick and Mixtral 8x7B share?

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 4 Maverick has 54 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.

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