Model comparison
Mixtral 8x7B vs Qwen3 Coder Next
Qwen3 Coder Next is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.3 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3 Coder Next leads 22.4 to 18.2.
- Qwen3 Coder Next is cheaper at $0.12 / $0.80 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $0.70 for Mixtral 8x7B.
- Qwen3 Coder Next accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 32K.
Side by side
| Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3 Coder Next | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 27.1 | 34.3 |
| Released | 2023-12-11 | 2026-02-02 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 32K | 262K |
| Max output | 32K | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.70 | $0.12 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.70 | $0.80 |
| Results tracked | 38 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3 Coder Next leads
Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269), Qwen3 Coder Next: 36.3 (#210)
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 32.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 34.4% |
| LMArena Coding | 1126 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 39.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 49.7% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3 Coder Next leads
Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285), Qwen3 Coder Next: 22.4 (#196)
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| 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 Not comparable
Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 10.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1147 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 10% | — |
| GSM8K | 74.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 30.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 33.5% | — |
| 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 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 57.5% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1109 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1103 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1132 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1109 | — |
| WildBench | 67.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1115 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mixtral 8x7B better than Qwen3 Coder Next?
Qwen3 Coder Next is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.3 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Mixtral 8x7B or Qwen3 Coder Next?
Qwen3 Coder Next is cheaper. It lists at $0.12 per million input tokens and $0.80 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x7B lists at $0.70 and $0.70.
Is Mixtral 8x7B or Qwen3 Coder Next better for coding?
Qwen3 Coder Next scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.3 versus 32.8 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen3 Coder Next does, with 262K tokens against 32K.
How many benchmarks do Mixtral 8x7B and Qwen3 Coder Next share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mixtral 8x7B has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Coder Next has 3.