Model comparison
Mixtral 8x7B vs Qwen3-4B
Qwen3-4B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Mixtral 8x7B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-4B in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3-4B leads 33.0 to 11.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 30.6% for Mixtral 8x7B and 52.3% for Qwen3-4B.
Side by side
| Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3-4B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 27.1 | 31.9 |
| Released | 2023-12-11 | 2025-04-29 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 32K | — |
| Max output | 32K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.70 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.70 | — |
| Results tracked | 38 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1126 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 39.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 49.7% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mixtral 8x7B: —, Qwen3-4B: 27.6 (#100)
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 35.7% |
Reasoning Qwen3-4B leads
Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285), Qwen3-4B: 19.2 (#268)
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| 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 Qwen3-4B leads
Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289), Qwen3-4B: 29.7 (#240)
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 38.5% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 52.2% |
| Omni-MATH | 10.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1147 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 10% | — |
| GSM8K | 74.4% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3-4B leads
Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301), Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#208)
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 30.6% | 52.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 33.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 29.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1088 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 87.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 85.8% | — |
| TriviaQA | 82.2% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| 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
Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 57.5% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1109 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1103 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1132 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1109 | — |
| WildBench | 67.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1115 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mixtral 8x7B better than Qwen3-4B?
Qwen3-4B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Mixtral 8x7B and Qwen3-4B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Mixtral 8x7B has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.