# Llama 3.2 11B vs Mixtral 8x22B

> Mixtral 8x22B has enough public results to be ranked (#333); Llama 3.2 11B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-3-2-11b-vs-mixtral-8x22b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Llama 3.2 11B scores higher in 1 category and Mixtral 8x22B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Llama 3.2 11B leads 27.3 to 23.1.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 3.2 11B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 32.1 | 27.1 |
| Rank | — | 333 |
| Context | — | 64K |
| Input $/M | — | $2 |
| Output $/M | — | $6 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Llama 3.2 11B: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 11B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | — | 3.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 40.6% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1166 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 50.2% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 72% |
| MBPP+ | — | 64.3% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Llama 3.2 11B: 27.3
- Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 11B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |
| BALROG | 16.8% | — |

## Reasoning

- Llama 3.2 11B: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 11B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1150 |
| DTBench | — | 55.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 122.03 |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |

## Math

- Llama 3.2 11B: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 11B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | — | 16.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1184 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 24.2% |

## Knowledge

- Llama 3.2 11B: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 11B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 56.5% | 77.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 34.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 46% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 33.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1113 |

## Multimodal

- Llama 3.2 11B: 24.4
- Mixtral 8x22B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 11B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 966 | — |

## Multilingual

- Llama 3.2 11B: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 11B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 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 3.2 11B: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 11B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 72.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1147 |

## Long Context

- Llama 3.2 11B: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 11B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1144 |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 3.2 11B: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 11B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1162 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1141 |
| WildBench | — | 71.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1130 |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 3.2 11B better than Mixtral 8x22B?

Mixtral 8x22B has enough public results to be ranked (#333); Llama 3.2 11B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 3.2 11B and Mixtral 8x22B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Llama 3.2 11B has 3 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.