# Granite 4.0 H Small vs Mixtral 8x22B

> Granite 4.0 H Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/ibm-granite-h-small-vs-mixtral-8x22b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.0 H Small scores higher in 8 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Granite 4.0 H Small leads 32.0 to 15.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is IFEval: 89% for Granite 4.0 H Small and 72.4% for Mixtral 8x22B.

## Snapshot

| | Granite 4.0 H Small | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 36.5 | 27.1 |
| Rank | 214 | 333 |
| Context | — | 64K |
| Input $/M | — | $2 |
| Output $/M | — | $6 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Granite 4.0 H Small: 36.4 (#209)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1249 | 1166 |
| WeirdML | — | 3.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 40.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 50.2% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 72% |
| MBPP+ | — | 64.3% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Granite 4.0 H Small: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |

## Reasoning

- Granite 4.0 H Small: 24.4 (#163)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1240 | 1150 |
| DTBench | — | 55.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 122.03 |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |

## Math

- Granite 4.0 H Small: 31.4 (#223)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 29.6% | 16.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1247 | 1184 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 24.2% |

## Knowledge

- Granite 4.0 H Small: 32.0 (#215)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 56.9% | 46% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | 33.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1251 | 1113 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 34.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.2% | — |
| MMLU | — | 77.8% |

## Multilingual

- Granite 4.0 H Small: 38.6 (#228)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1216 | 1128 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1249 | 1116 |
| LMArena Russian | 1201 | 1158 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1258 | 1151 |
| LMArena French | — | 1166 |
| LMArena German | — | 1141 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1037 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1057 |

## Instruction Following

- Granite 4.0 H Small: 68.7 (#183)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 89% | 72.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1222 | 1147 |

## Long Context

- Granite 4.0 H Small: 37.7 (#213)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1242 | 1144 |

## Writing & Preference

- Granite 4.0 H Small: 43.8 (#227)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1241 | 1162 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1211 | 1141 |
| WildBench | 73.9% | 71.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1242 | 1130 |

## FAQ

### Is Granite 4.0 H Small better than Mixtral 8x22B?

Granite 4.0 H Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Granite 4.0 H Small or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?

Granite 4.0 H Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.4 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 H Small and Mixtral 8x22B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 H Small has 19 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.