# Claude 2.1 vs Mixtral 8x22B

> Mixtral 8x22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 26.7 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-2-1-vs-mixtral-8x22b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 6

## Summary

- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2.1 scores higher in 3 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Mixtral 8x22B leads 21.2 to 9.6.
- Mixtral 8x22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2.1 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 24.9 | 26.7 |
| Rank | 340 | 330 |
| Context | — | 64K |
| Input $/M | — | $2 |
| Output $/M | — | $6 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 2.1: 25.8 (#322)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 23.8 (#324)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 7.1% | 3.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 40.6% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1166 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 50.2% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 72% |
| MBPP+ | — | 64.3% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 2.1: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 22.8 (#119)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2.1: 20.6 (#216)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 19.1 (#246)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51% | 55.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.22 | 122 |
| ForecastBench | 54.2 | 56.3 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1150 |

## Math

- Claude 2.1: 9.6 (#309)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 21.2 (#271)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.9% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 16.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1184 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 24.2% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2.1: 15.5 (#287)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#288)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | 34.1% |
| MMLU | 73.5% | 77.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 46% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 33.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1113 |

## Multilingual

- Claude 2.1: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 32.9 (#250)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1128 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1116 |
| LMArena French | — | 1165 |
| LMArena German | — | 1141 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1037 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1056 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1158 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1150 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 2.1: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 57.9 (#261)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 72.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1147 |

## Long Context

- Claude 2.1: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 34.6 (#242)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1144 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 2.1: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 37.1 (#257)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1162 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1141 |
| WildBench | — | 71.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1130 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2.1 better than Mixtral 8x22B?

Mixtral 8x22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 26.7 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 2.1 or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?

Claude 2.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 25.8 versus 23.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 2.1 and Mixtral 8x22B share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2.1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.