# Llama 13b vs Mixtral 8x22B

> Mixtral 8x22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.1 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-13b-vs-mixtral-8x22b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 10

## Summary

- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 13b scores higher in 1 category and Mixtral 8x22B in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mixtral 8x22B leads 36.9 to 13.8.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 13b | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 24.4 | 27.1 |
| Rank | 348 | 333 |
| Context | — | 64K |
| Input $/M | — | $2 |
| Output $/M | — | $6 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Llama 13b: 21.4 (#337)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 683 | 1166 |
| WeirdML | — | 3.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 40.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 50.2% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 72% |
| MBPP+ | — | 64.3% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Llama 13b: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |

## Reasoning

- Llama 13b: 14.0 (#329)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 728 | 1150 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 100.58 | 122.03 |
| DTBench | — | 55.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.9% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
| HellaSwag | 79.2% | — |
| LAMBADA | 75.2% | — |
| PIQA | 80.1% | — |
| WinoGrande | 73% | — |

## Math

- Llama 13b: 26.7 (#256)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 838 | 1184 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 16.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 24.2% |
| GSM8K | 20.6% | — |

## Knowledge

- Llama 13b: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 47.7% | 77.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 34.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 46% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 33.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1113 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 52.7% | — |
| BoolQ | 78.7% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 77.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Llama 13b: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| ScienceQA | 43.3% | — |

## Multilingual

- Llama 13b: 16.6 (#297)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 819 | 1128 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1116 |
| LMArena French | — | 1166 |
| LMArena German | — | 1141 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1037 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1057 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1158 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1151 |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 13b: 36.7 (#305)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 781 | 1147 |
| IFEval | — | 72.4% |

## Long Context

- Llama 13b: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1144 |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 13b: 13.8 (#312)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 834 | 1162 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 794 | 1141 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 753 | 1130 |
| WildBench | — | 71.1% |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 13b better than Mixtral 8x22B?

Mixtral 8x22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.1 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Llama 13b or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?

Mixtral 8x22B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 24.2 versus 21.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 13b and Mixtral 8x22B share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 13b has 21 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.