# Granite 4.0 Micro vs Mixtral 8x7B

> Granite 4.0 Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/granite-4-0-micro-vs-mixtral-8x7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 6

## Summary

- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.0 Micro scores higher in 3 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Granite 4.0 Micro leads 69.9 to 51.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is IFEval: 84.9% for Granite 4.0 Micro and 57.5% for Mixtral 8x7B.
- Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper at $0.017 / $0.11 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $0.70 for Mixtral 8x7B.
- Granite 4.0 Micro accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 32K.

## Snapshot

| | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 27.1 |
| Rank | 318 | 334 |
| Context | 131K | 32K |
| Input $/M | $0.017 | $0.70 |
| Output $/M | $0.11 | $0.70 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Granite 4.0 Micro: —
- Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1126 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 39.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 49.7% |

## Reasoning

- Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1115 |
| DTBench | — | 49.6% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.47 |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
| HellaSwag | — | 86.7% |
| PIQA | — | 83.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 77.2% |

## Math

- Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 20.9% | 10.5% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.8% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1147 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 10% |
| GSM8K | — | 74.4% |

## Knowledge

- Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 28.3% | 30.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | 39.5% | 33.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.7% | 29.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1088 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 87.3% |
| MMLU | — | 70.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 85.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 82.2% |

## Multilingual

- Granite 4.0 Micro: —
- Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | 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

- Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 84.9% | 57.5% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1109 |

## Long Context

- Granite 4.0 Micro: —
- Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1103 |

## Writing & Preference

- Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| WildBench | 67% | 67.3% |
| LMArena Text | — | 1132 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1109 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1115 |

## FAQ

### Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than Mixtral 8x7B?

Granite 4.0 Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Granite 4.0 Micro or Mixtral 8x7B?

Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.017 per million input tokens and $0.11 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x7B lists at $0.70 and $0.70.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Granite 4.0 Micro does, with 131K tokens against 32K.

### How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and Mixtral 8x7B share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.