Model comparison
Mixtral 8x7B vs Qwen3 8B
Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Mixtral 8x7B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 8B in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3 8B leads 36.1 to 11.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 30.6% for Mixtral 8x7B and 56.8% for Qwen3 8B.
- Qwen3 8B is cheaper at $0.18 / $0.70 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $0.70 for Mixtral 8x7B.
- Qwen3 8B accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 32K.
Side by side
| Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 27.1 | 33.7 |
| Released | 2023-12-11 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 32K | 131K |
| Max output | 32K | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.70 | $0.18 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.70 | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 38 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3 8B leads
Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269), Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 22.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1126 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 39.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 49.7% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mixtral 8x7B: —, Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 42.6% |
Reasoning Mixtral 8x7B leads
Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285), Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 49.6% | 59.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.47 | 136.17 |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1115 | — |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
| Adversarial NLI | 55.2% | — |
| ForecastBench | 56.3 | — |
| HellaSwag | 86.7% | — |
| PIQA | 83.6% | — |
| WinoGrande | 77.2% | — |
Math Qwen3 8B leads
Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289), Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 56.1% |
| Omni-MATH | 10.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1147 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 10% | — |
| GSM8K | 74.4% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3 8B leads
Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 30.6% | 56.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | 33.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.8% |
| 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 8B: —
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| 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 8B: —
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 57.5% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1109 | — |
Long Context Qwen3 8B leads
Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260), Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1103 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1132 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1109 | — |
| WildBench | 67.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1115 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mixtral 8x7B better than Qwen3 8B?
Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Mixtral 8x7B or Qwen3 8B?
Qwen3 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.18 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x7B lists at $0.70 and $0.70.
Is Mixtral 8x7B or Qwen3 8B better for coding?
Qwen3 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 32.8 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen3 8B does, with 131K tokens against 32K.
How many benchmarks do Mixtral 8x7B and Qwen3 8B share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mixtral 8x7B has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.