Model comparison
Longcat Flash Chat vs Mixtral 8x22B
Longcat Flash Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Longcat Flash Chat scores higher in 7 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Longcat Flash Chat leads 40.6 to 15.1.
Side by side
| Longcat Flash Chat | Mixtral 8x22B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meituan | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 42.1 | 27.1 |
| Released | — | 2024-04-17 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 64K |
| Max output | — | 64K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $6 |
| Results tracked | 19 | 34 |
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Category by category
Coding Longcat Flash Chat leads
Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#87), Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1471 | 1166 |
| WeirdML | — | 3.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 40.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 50.2% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 72% |
| MBPP+ | — | 64.3% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Longcat Flash Chat: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Longcat Flash Chat: 19.0 (#272), Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1440 | 1150 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 43.9% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 17.7% | — |
| DTBench | — | 55.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 122.03 |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
Math Longcat Flash Chat leads
Longcat Flash Chat: 39.4 (#107), Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1442 | 1184 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 16.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 24.2% |
Knowledge Longcat Flash Chat leads
Longcat Flash Chat: 40.6 (#116), Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1454 | 1113 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 34.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 46% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 33.4% |
| MMLU | — | 77.8% |
Multilingual Longcat Flash Chat leads
Longcat Flash Chat: 51.9 (#101), Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1404 | 1128 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1465 | 1116 |
| LMArena French | 1456 | 1166 |
| LMArena German | 1408 | 1141 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1373 | 1037 |
| LMArena Korean | 1371 | 1057 |
| LMArena Russian | 1395 | 1158 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1445 | 1151 |
Instruction Following Longcat Flash Chat leads
Longcat Flash Chat: 74.4 (#96), Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1411 | 1147 |
| IFEval | — | 72.4% |
Long Context Longcat Flash Chat leads
Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#93), Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1425 | 1144 |
Writing & Preference Longcat Flash Chat leads
Longcat Flash Chat: 61.0 (#91), Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)
| Benchmark | Longcat Flash Chat | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1427 | 1162 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1388 | 1141 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1418 | 1130 |
| WildBench | — | 71.1% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Longcat Flash Chat better than Mixtral 8x22B?
Longcat Flash Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Longcat Flash Chat or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?
Longcat Flash Chat scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.5 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Longcat Flash Chat and Mixtral 8x22B share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Longcat Flash Chat has 19 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.