# DeepSeek Coder 6.7B vs Mixtral 8x7B

> Mixtral 8x7B has enough public results to be ranked (#328); 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-8x7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 7

## Summary

- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 6.7B scores higher in 1 category and Mixtral 8x7B 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 32.2.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 37.1 | 26.8 |
| Rank | — | 328 |
| Context | — | 32K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: 35.2 (#216)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 32.2 (#265)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 71.3% | 39.6% |
| MBPP+ | 65.6% | 49.7% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 35.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1127 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 43.8% | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Mixtral 8x7B: 17.4 (#283)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 88.88 | 118.38 |
| WinoGrande | 57.6% | 77.2% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1115 |
| DTBench | — | 49.6% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.2% |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
| HellaSwag | — | 86.7% |
| PIQA | — | 83.6% |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Mixtral 8x7B: 17.2 (#284)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 21.3% | 74.4% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 10.5% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1147 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 10% |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#296)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 36.4% | 87.3% |
| MMLU | 36.4% | 70.6% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 30.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 33.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 29.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1088 |
| OpenBookQA | — | 85.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 82.2% |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Mixtral 8x7B: 29.8 (#261)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | 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

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Mixtral 8x7B: 51.2 (#292)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 57.5% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1110 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#255)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1103 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Mixtral 8x7B: 34.4 (#265)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1132 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1109 |
| WildBench | — | 67.3% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1115 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 6.7B better than Mixtral 8x7B?

Mixtral 8x7B has enough public results to be ranked (#328); DeepSeek Coder 6.7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 6.7B or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.2 versus 32.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 6.7B and Mixtral 8x7B share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 6.7B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.