# DeepSeek Coder 6.7B vs Mixtral 8x22B

> Mixtral 8x22B has enough public results to be ranked (#330); DeepSeek Coder 6.7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-6-7b-vs-mixtral-8x22b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 6

## Summary

- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 6.7B scores higher in 1 category and Mixtral 8x22B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 6.7B leads 35.2 to 23.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 43.8% for DeepSeek Coder 6.7B and 50.2% for Mixtral 8x22B.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 37.1 | 26.7 |
| Rank | — | 330 |
| Context | — | 64K |
| Input $/M | — | $2 |
| Output $/M | — | $6 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: 35.2 (#216)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 23.8 (#324)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 35.5% | 40.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 43.8% | 50.2% |
| HumanEval+ | 71.3% | 72% |
| MBPP+ | 65.6% | 64.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 3.2% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1166 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 22.8 (#119)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 19.1 (#246)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 88.88 | 122 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1150 |
| DTBench | — | 55.1% |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
| WinoGrande | 57.6% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 21.2 (#271)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | — | 16.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1184 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 24.2% |
| GSM8K | 21.3% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#288)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 36.4% | 77.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 34.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 46% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 33.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1113 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 36.4% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 32.9 (#250)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | 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

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 57.9 (#261)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 72.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1147 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 34.6 (#242)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1144 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 37.1 (#257)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1162 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1141 |
| WildBench | — | 71.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1130 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 6.7B better than Mixtral 8x22B?

Mixtral 8x22B has enough public results to be ranked (#330); DeepSeek Coder 6.7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 6.7B or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.2 versus 23.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 6.7B and Mixtral 8x22B share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 6.7B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.