# Llama 3-70B vs Mixtral 8x22B

> Llama 3-70B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.5 to 26.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-3-70b-vs-mixtral-8x22b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 28

## Summary

- They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3-70B scores higher in 6 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Llama 3-70B leads 35.3 to 23.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 40.6% for Llama 3-70B and 34.1% for Mixtral 8x22B.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 3-70B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 28.5 | 26.7 |
| Rank | 317 | 330 |
| Context | — | 64K |
| Input $/M | — | $2 |
| Output $/M | — | $6 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Llama 3-70B: 35.3 (#215)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 23.8 (#324)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.6% | 40.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1206 | 1166 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 54.5% | 50.2% |
| HumanEval+ | 72% | 72% |
| MBPP+ | 69% | 64.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 3.2% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Llama 3-70B: 20.9 (#132)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 22.8 (#119)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 5% | 7.5% |

## Reasoning

- Llama 3-70B: 17.4 (#284)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 19.1 (#246)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1195 | 1150 |
| DTBench | 54.2% | 55.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 122.91 | 122 |
| ForecastBench | 57.1 | 56.3 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 35.1% | — |
| WinoGrande | 83.5% | — |

## Math

- Llama 3-70B: 12.0 (#299)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 21.2 (#271)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1218 | 1184 |
| MATH Level 5 | 22.6% | 24.2% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 16.3% |

## Knowledge

- Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#272)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#288)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | 34.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1149 | 1113 |
| MMLU | 79.3% | 77.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 46% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 33.4% |

## Multilingual

- Llama 3-70B: 33.8 (#246)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 32.9 (#250)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1142 | 1128 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1114 | 1116 |
| LMArena French | 1231 | 1165 |
| LMArena German | 1169 | 1141 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1017 | 1037 |
| LMArena Korean | 1017 | 1056 |
| LMArena Russian | 1159 | 1158 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1241 | 1150 |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 3-70B: 62.8 (#233)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 57.9 (#261)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1194 | 1147 |
| IFEval | — | 72.4% |

## Long Context

- Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#235)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 34.6 (#242)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1174 | 1144 |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 3-70B: 43.0 (#225)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 37.1 (#257)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1221 | 1162 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1210 | 1141 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1223 | 1130 |
| WildBench | — | 71.1% |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 3-70B better than Mixtral 8x22B?

Llama 3-70B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.5 to 26.7 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Llama 3-70B or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?

Llama 3-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.3 versus 23.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 3-70B and Mixtral 8x22B share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3-70B has 31 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.