Model comparison

Mixtral 8x7B vs Olmo 7b Instruct

Olmo 7b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.7 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Mixtral 8x7B Mistral AI

26.8

Rank #328 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Mixtral 8x7B scores higher in 4 categories and Olmo 7b Instruct in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Olmo 7b Instruct leads 27.8 to 17.2.

Side by side

Mixtral 8x7B and Olmo 7b Instruct specifications
Mixtral 8x7BOlmo 7b Instruct
ProviderMistral AIAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index26.829.7
Released2023-12-11—
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window32K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.70—
Output $ / M tokens$0.70—
Results tracked3810

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Category by category

Coding Mixtral 8x7B leads

Mixtral 8x7B: 32.2 (#265), Olmo 7b Instruct: 29.1 (#298)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Coding11271016
HumanEval+39.6%—
MBPP+49.7%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Mixtral 8x7B: 17.4 (#283), Olmo 7b Instruct: 18.0 (#273)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts1115993
DTBench49.6%—
Adversarial NLI55.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index118.38—
ForecastBench56.3—
HellaSwag86.7%—
PIQA83.6%—
WinoGrande77.2%—

Math Olmo 7b Instruct leads

Mixtral 8x7B: 17.2 (#284), Olmo 7b Instruct: 27.8 (#234)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Math11471018
Omni-MATH10.5%—
MATH Level 510%—
GSM8K74.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#296), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BOlmo 7b Instruct
GPQA Diamond30.6%—
MMLU-Pro33.5%—
GPQA (HELM)29.6%—
LMArena Expert1088—
ARC (AI2) Challenge87.3%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA85.8%—
TriviaQA82.2%—

Multilingual Mixtral 8x7B leads

Mixtral 8x7B: 29.8 (#261), Olmo 7b Instruct: 24.1 (#286)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Non-English1077977
LMArena Chinese10551013
LMArena Russian1090946
LMArena French1165—
LMArena German1114—
LMArena Japanese931—
LMArena Korean968—
LMArena Spanish1110—

Instruction Following Mixtral 8x7B leads

Mixtral 8x7B: 51.2 (#292), Olmo 7b Instruct: 49.3 (#296)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1110978
IFEval57.5%—

Long Context Not comparable

Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#255), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1103—

Writing & Preference Mixtral 8x7B leads

Mixtral 8x7B: 34.4 (#265), Olmo 7b Instruct: 26.0 (#298)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Text11321032
LMArena Creative Writing1109990
LMArena Multi-Turn11151007
WildBench67.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mixtral 8x7B better than Olmo 7b Instruct?

Olmo 7b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.7 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Mixtral 8x7B or Olmo 7b Instruct better for coding?

Mixtral 8x7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.2 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Mixtral 8x7B and Olmo 7b Instruct share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mixtral 8x7B has 38 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 7b Instruct has 10.

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