Model comparison
Mixtral 8x7B vs Qwen3.5 Max Preview
Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Mixtral 8x7B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 Max Preview in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads 66.0 to 34.2.
- Mixtral 8x7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3.5 Max Preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 27.1 | 45.3 |
| Released | 2023-12-11 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 32K | — |
| Max output | 32K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.70 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.70 | — |
| Results tracked | 38 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 44.0 (#77)
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1126 | 1487 |
| HumanEval+ | 39.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 49.7% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 30.8 (#84)
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1115 | 1483 |
| 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 Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 40.1 (#94)
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1147 | 1474 |
| Omni-MATH | 10.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 10% | — |
| GSM8K | 74.4% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 41.8 (#107)
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1088 | 1489 |
| GPQA Diamond | 30.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 33.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 29.6% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 87.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 85.8% | — |
| TriviaQA | 82.2% | — |
Multilingual Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 56.2 (#22)
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1077 | 1465 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1055 | 1534 |
| LMArena French | 1166 | 1484 |
| LMArena German | 1114 | 1487 |
| LMArena Japanese | 931 | 1495 |
| LMArena Korean | 968 | 1438 |
| LMArena Russian | 1090 | 1471 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1111 | 1470 |
Instruction Following Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 77.0 (#31)
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1109 | 1467 |
| IFEval | 57.5% | — |
Long Context Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 45.2 (#45)
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1103 | 1476 |
Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 66.0 (#41)
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1132 | 1470 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1109 | 1464 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1115 | 1478 |
| WildBench | 67.3% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mixtral 8x7B better than Qwen3.5 Max Preview?
Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Mixtral 8x7B or Qwen3.5 Max Preview better for coding?
Qwen3.5 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 32.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mixtral 8x7B and Qwen3.5 Max Preview share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mixtral 8x7B has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Max Preview has 17.