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Model comparison

Mixtral 8x7B vs Qwen3.6 Flash

Qwen3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Mixtral 8x7B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #334 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

38.8

Rank #182 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Mixtral 8x7B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Flash in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.6 Flash leads 42.1 to 11.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 30.6% for Mixtral 8x7B and 83.3% for Qwen3.6 Flash.
  • Qwen3.6 Flash is cheaper at $0.19 / $1.13 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $0.70 for Mixtral 8x7B.
  • Qwen3.6 Flash accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 32K.
  • Mixtral 8x7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Mixtral 8x7BQwen3.6 Flash
ProviderMistral AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index27.138.8
Released2023-12-112026-04-27
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window32K1M
Max output32K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.70$0.19
Output $ / M tokens$0.70$1.13
Results tracked3813

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Coding1126—
ALE-Bench—326.4
HumanEval+39.6%—
MBPP+49.7%—

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285), Qwen3.6 Flash: 29.0 (#96)

BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BQwen3.6 Flash
DTBench49.6%77.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index118.47143.26
SimpleBench—35.2%
Chess Puzzles—20%
LMArena Hard Prompts1115—
Mystery Game Puzzles—18%
LMCA—31%
Adversarial NLI55.2%—
ForecastBench56.3—
HellaSwag86.7%—
PIQA83.6%—
WinoGrande77.2%—

Math Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289), Qwen3.6 Flash: 39.0 (#117)

BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BQwen3.6 Flash
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—22.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—84.4%
Omni-MATH10.5%—
LMArena Math1147—
MATH Level 510%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—10.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%
GSM8K74.4%—

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301), Qwen3.6 Flash: 42.1 (#100)

BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BQwen3.6 Flash
GPQA Diamond30.6%83.3%
SimpleQA Verified—15.9%
MMLU-Pro33.5%—
GPQA (HELM)29.6%—
LMArena Expert1088—
ARC (AI2) Challenge87.3%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA85.8%—
TriviaQA82.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Non-English1077—
LMArena Chinese1055—
LMArena French1166—
LMArena German1114—
LMArena Japanese931—
LMArena Korean968—
LMArena Russian1090—
LMArena Spanish1111—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BQwen3.6 Flash
IFEval57.5%—
LMArena Instruction Following1109—

Long Context Not comparable

Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Longer Query1103—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Text1132—
LMArena Creative Writing1109—
WildBench67.3%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1115—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mixtral 8x7B better than Qwen3.6 Flash?

Qwen3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Mixtral 8x7B or Qwen3.6 Flash?

Qwen3.6 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.19 per million input tokens and $1.13 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x7B lists at $0.70 and $0.70.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.6 Flash does, with 1M tokens against 32K.

How many benchmarks do Mixtral 8x7B and Qwen3.6 Flash share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mixtral 8x7B has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Flash has 13.

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