# Llama 3.2 3B vs Mixtral 8x7B

> Llama 3.2 3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.4 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-3-2-3b-vs-mixtral-8x7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 13

## Summary

- They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3.2 3B scores higher in 4 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 3.2 3B leads 29.1 to 11.0.
- Llama 3.2 3B is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.33 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $0.70 for Mixtral 8x7B.
- Llama 3.2 3B accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 32K.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 3.2 3B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 28.4 | 26.8 |
| Rank | 318 | 328 |
| Context | 131K | 32K |
| Input $/M | $0.05 | $0.70 |
| Output $/M | $0.33 | $0.70 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Llama 3.2 3B: 27.1 (#314)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 32.2 (#265)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 3B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1098 | 1127 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 23.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 28.3% | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 39.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 49.7% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Llama 3.2 3B: 19.9 (#135)
- Mixtral 8x7B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 3B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 21.9% | — |
| BALROG | 10.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- Llama 3.2 3B: 20.1 (#225)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 17.4 (#283)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 3B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1095 | 1115 |
| DTBench | — | 49.6% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.38 |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
| HellaSwag | — | 86.7% |
| PIQA | — | 83.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 77.2% |

## Math

- Llama 3.2 3B: 29.9 (#213)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 17.2 (#284)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 3B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1126 | 1147 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 10.5% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 10% |
| GSM8K | — | 74.4% |

## Knowledge

- Llama 3.2 3B: 29.1 (#232)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#296)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 3B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1090 | 1088 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 30.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 33.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 29.6% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 87.3% |
| MMLU | — | 70.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 85.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 82.2% |

## Multilingual

- Llama 3.2 3B: 26.4 (#276)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 29.8 (#261)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 3B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1019 | 1077 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1017 | 1055 |
| LMArena German | 1056 | 1114 |
| LMArena Russian | 949 | 1090 |
| LMArena French | — | 1165 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 931 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 968 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1110 |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 3.2 3B: 56.3 (#270)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 51.2 (#292)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 3B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1089 | 1110 |
| IFEval | — | 57.5% |

## Long Context

- Llama 3.2 3B: 33.4 (#256)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#255)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 3B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1101 | 1103 |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 3.2 3B: 24.9 (#302)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 34.4 (#265)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 3B | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1110 | 1132 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1094 | 1109 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1105 | 1115 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 595 | — |
| WildBench | — | 67.3% |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 3.2 3B better than Mixtral 8x7B?

Llama 3.2 3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.4 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Llama 3.2 3B or Mixtral 8x7B?

Llama 3.2 3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.33 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x7B lists at $0.70 and $0.70.

### Is Llama 3.2 3B or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?

Mixtral 8x7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.2 versus 27.1 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Llama 3.2 3B does, with 131K tokens against 32K.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 3.2 3B and Mixtral 8x7B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.2 3B has 18 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.