Noometry

Model comparison

Mixtral 8x7B vs Qwen3.6 Plus

Qwen3.6 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index. Mixtral 8x7B costs 1.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3.6 Plus's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Mixtral 8x7B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #334 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

47.5

Rank #62 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Mixtral 8x7B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Plus in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.6 Plus leads 56.1 to 11.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 30.6% for Mixtral 8x7B and 88.4% for Qwen3.6 Plus.
  • Mixtral 8x7B is cheaper at $0.70 / $0.70 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $3 for Qwen3.6 Plus.
  • Qwen3.6 Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 32K.
  • Mixtral 8x7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Mixtral 8x7BQwen3.6 Plus
ProviderMistral AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index27.147.5
Released2023-12-112026-03-31
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window32K1M
Max output32K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.70$0.50
Output $ / M tokens$0.70$3
Results tracked3837

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269), Qwen3.6 Plus: 40.8 (#130)

BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Coding11261467
SWE-bench Verified—57.9%
LMArena WebDev—1461
SciCode—40.7%
ALE-Bench—670.15
HumanEval+39.6%—
MBPP+49.7%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mixtral 8x7B: —, Qwen3.6 Plus: —

BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BQwen3.6 Plus
Vending-Bench 2—5,115

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285), Qwen3.6 Plus: 29.3 (#93)

BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Hard Prompts11151449
DTBench49.6%81.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index118.47147.65
NYT Connections (extended)—60.3%
CritPt—2.9%
Chess Puzzles—17%
Thematic Generalization—59.5%
Mystery Game Puzzles—12%
LMCA—33.1%
Adversarial NLI55.2%—
ForecastBench56.3—
HellaSwag86.7%—
PIQA83.6%—
WinoGrande77.2%—

Math Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289), Qwen3.6 Plus: 51.8 (#54)

BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Math11471450
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—38.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—93.3%
Omni-MATH10.5%—
MATH Level 510%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—26.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—8.3%
GSM8K74.4%—

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301), Qwen3.6 Plus: 56.1 (#45)

BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BQwen3.6 Plus
GPQA Diamond30.6%88.4%
LMArena Expert10881454
SimpleQA Verified—44.1%
MMLU-Pro33.5%—
GPQA (HELM)29.6%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge87.3%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA85.8%—
TriviaQA82.2%—

Multilingual Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266), Qwen3.6 Plus: 53.3 (#70)

BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Non-English10771424
LMArena Chinese10551477
LMArena French11661455
LMArena German11141452
LMArena Japanese9311389
LMArena Korean9681379
LMArena Russian10901434
LMArena Spanish11111432

Instruction Following Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297), Qwen3.6 Plus: 75.0 (#74)

BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Instruction Following11091425
IFEval57.5%—

Long Context Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260), Qwen3.6 Plus: 45.2 (#49)

BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Longer Query11031439
CL-bench—20.3%

Writing & Preference Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270), Qwen3.6 Plus: 62.2 (#82)

BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text11321437
LMArena Creative Writing11091404
LMArena Multi-Turn11151438
WildBench67.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mixtral 8x7B better than Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index. Mixtral 8x7B costs 1.6× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3.6 Plus's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

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

Mixtral 8x7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.70 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; Qwen3.6 Plus lists at $0.50 and $3.

Is Mixtral 8x7B or Qwen3.6 Plus better for coding?

Qwen3.6 Plus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.8 versus 32.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

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

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

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mixtral 8x7B has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Plus has 37.

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