# Claude 2 vs Mixtral 8x7B

> Mixtral 8x7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 26.8 to 24.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-2-vs-mixtral-8x7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 7

## Summary

- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2 scores higher in 2 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Mixtral 8x7B leads 17.2 to 8.7.
- Mixtral 8x7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 24.7 | 26.8 |
| Rank | 342 | 328 |
| Context | — | 32K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 2: —
- Mixtral 8x7B: 32.2 (#265)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 61.6% | 39.6% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1127 |
| MBPP+ | — | 49.7% |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2: 20.8 (#213)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 17.4 (#283)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51.9% | 49.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.08 | 118.38 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1115 |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.2% |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
| HellaSwag | — | 86.7% |
| PIQA | — | 83.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 77.2% |

## Math

- Claude 2: 8.7 (#314)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 17.2 (#284)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | 10% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 10.5% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1147 |
| GSM8K | — | 74.4% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2: 17.0 (#282)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#296)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 34.7% | 30.6% |
| MMLU | 78.5% | 70.6% |
| TriviaQA | 87.5% | 82.2% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 33.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 29.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1088 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 87.3% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 85.8% |

## Multilingual

- Claude 2: —
- Mixtral 8x7B: 29.8 (#261)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1077 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1055 |
| LMArena French | — | 1165 |
| LMArena German | — | 1114 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 931 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 968 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1090 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1110 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 2: —
- Mixtral 8x7B: 51.2 (#292)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 57.5% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1110 |

## Long Context

- Claude 2: —
- Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#255)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1103 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 2: —
- Mixtral 8x7B: 34.4 (#265)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1132 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1109 |
| WildBench | — | 67.3% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1115 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2 better than Mixtral 8x7B?

Mixtral 8x7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 26.8 to 24.7 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and Mixtral 8x7B share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.