Model comparison
Mistral Medium 3.1 vs Mixtral 8x7B
Mistral Medium 3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium 3.1 leads 55.5 to 34.2.
- Mixtral 8x7B is cheaper at $0.70 / $0.70 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $2 for Mistral Medium 3.1.
- Mistral Medium 3.1 accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 32K.
- Mixtral 8x7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mistral Medium 3.1 | Mixtral 8x7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 27.1 |
| Released | — | 2023-12-11 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 131K | 32K |
| Max output | 105K | 32K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.40 | $0.70 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2 | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 3 | 38 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mistral Medium 3.1: —, Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1126 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 39.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 49.7% |
Reasoning Mixtral 8x7B leads
Mistral Medium 3.1: 10.6 (#341), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| NYT Connections (extended) | 6.5% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | 20.3% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1115 |
| DTBench | — | 49.6% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.47 |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
| HellaSwag | — | 86.7% |
| PIQA | — | 83.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 77.2% |
Math Not comparable
Mistral Medium 3.1: —, Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | — | 10.5% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1147 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 10% |
| GSM8K | — | 74.4% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mistral Medium 3.1: —, Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 30.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 33.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 29.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1088 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 87.3% |
| MMLU | — | 70.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 85.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 82.2% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral Medium 3.1: —, Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1077 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1055 |
| LMArena French | — | 1166 |
| LMArena German | — | 1114 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 931 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 968 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1090 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1111 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mistral Medium 3.1: —, Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 57.5% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1109 |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral Medium 3.1: —, Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1103 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Medium 3.1 leads
Mistral Medium 3.1: 55.5 (#145), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1132 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1109 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1476 | — |
| WildBench | — | 67.3% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1115 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Medium 3.1 better than Mixtral 8x7B?
Mistral Medium 3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium 3.1 or Mixtral 8x7B?
Mixtral 8x7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.70 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.1 lists at $0.40 and $2.
Which has the bigger context window?
Mistral Medium 3.1 does, with 131K tokens against 32K.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium 3.1 and Mixtral 8x7B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium 3.1 has 3 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.