# Claude 2.1 vs Mixtral 8x7B

> Mixtral 8x7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.1 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-2-1-vs-mixtral-8x7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 5

## Summary

- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2.1 scores higher in 2 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Mixtral 8x7B leads 18.8 to 10.2.
- Mixtral 8x7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 25.2 | 27.1 |
| Rank | 345 | 334 |
| Context | — | 32K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 2.1: 26.2 (#327)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 7.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1126 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 39.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 49.7% |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2.1: 21.4 (#221)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51% | 49.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.27 | 118.47 |
| ForecastBench | 54.2 | 56.3 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1115 |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.2% |
| HellaSwag | — | 86.7% |
| PIQA | — | 83.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 77.2% |

## Math

- Claude 2.1: 10.2 (#315)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.9% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 10.5% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1147 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 10% |
| GSM8K | — | 74.4% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2.1: 15.4 (#292)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | 30.6% |
| MMLU | 73.5% | 70.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 33.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 29.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1088 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 87.3% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 85.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 82.2% |

## Multilingual

- Claude 2.1: —
- Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| 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

- Claude 2.1: —
- Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 57.5% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1109 |

## Long Context

- Claude 2.1: —
- Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1103 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 2.1: —
- Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1132 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1109 |
| WildBench | — | 67.3% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1115 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2.1 better than Mixtral 8x7B?

Mixtral 8x7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.1 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 2.1 or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?

Mixtral 8x7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.8 versus 26.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 2.1 and Mixtral 8x7B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2.1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.