# Granite 3.0 8b Instruct vs Mixtral 8x22B

> Granite 3.0 8b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.6 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/granite-3-0-8b-instruct-vs-mixtral-8x22b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 14

## Summary

- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct scores higher in 4 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads 29.6 to 15.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 35.4% for Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and 50.2% for Mixtral 8x22B.

## Snapshot

| | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 31.6 | 27.1 |
| Rank | 270 | 333 |
| Context | — | 64K |
| Input $/M | — | $2 |
| Output $/M | — | $6 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.7 (#301)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)

| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29.3% | 40.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1112 | 1166 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 35.4% | 50.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 3.2% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 72% |
| MBPP+ | — | 64.3% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)

| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |

## Reasoning

- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 20.9 (#230)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)

| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1092 | 1150 |
| DTBench | — | 55.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 122.03 |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |

## Math

- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 32.8 (#210)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)

| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1143 | 1184 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 16.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 24.2% |

## Knowledge

- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.6 (#236)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)

| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1087 | 1113 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 34.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 46% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 33.4% |
| MMLU | — | 77.8% |

## Multilingual

- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 27.2 (#276)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)

| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1037 | 1128 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1063 | 1116 |
| LMArena Russian | 1060 | 1158 |
| LMArena French | — | 1166 |
| LMArena German | — | 1141 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1037 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1057 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1151 |

## Instruction Following

- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 56.0 (#276)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)

| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1088 | 1147 |
| IFEval | — | 72.4% |

## Long Context

- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 34.0 (#252)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)

| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1122 | 1144 |

## Writing & Preference

- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#285)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)

| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1096 | 1162 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1071 | 1141 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1063 | 1130 |
| WildBench | — | 71.1% |

## FAQ

### Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct better than Mixtral 8x22B?

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.6 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.7 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Mixtral 8x22B share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.