# Mistral Large 3 vs Mixtral 8x22B

> Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-large-3-vs-mixtral-8x22b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Large 3 scores higher in 7 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Large 3 leads 60.0 to 36.9.
- Mistral Large 3 is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.75 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Mixtral 8x22B.
- Mistral Large 3 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 64K.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Large 3 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 39.1 | 27.1 |
| Rank | 176 | 333 |
| Context | 262K | 64K |
| Input $/M | $0.25 | $2 |
| Output $/M | $0.75 | $6 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral Large 3: 34.4 (#237)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1448 | 1166 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1230 | — |
| WeirdML | — | 3.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 40.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 50.2% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 72% |
| MBPP+ | — | 64.3% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mistral Large 3: —
- Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Large 3: 15.2 (#319)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1429 | 1150 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 50.9% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 7.5% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | 23% | — |
| DTBench | — | 55.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 122.03 |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |

## Math

- Mistral Large 3: 38.7 (#129)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1414 | 1184 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 16.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 24.2% |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Large 3: 36.0 (#177)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1421 | 1113 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 34.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 46% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 14.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 33.4% |
| MMLU | — | 77.8% |

## Multimodal

- Mistral Large 3: 38.2 (#66)
- Mixtral 8x22B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1221 | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Large 3: 52.5 (#84)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1413 | 1128 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1447 | 1116 |
| LMArena French | 1455 | 1166 |
| LMArena German | 1437 | 1141 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1394 | 1037 |
| LMArena Korean | 1384 | 1057 |
| LMArena Russian | 1411 | 1158 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1440 | 1151 |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Large 3: 74.0 (#108)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1403 | 1147 |
| IFEval | — | 72.4% |

## Long Context

- Mistral Large 3: 43.1 (#105)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1413 | 1144 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Large 3: 60.0 (#101)
- Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1428 | 1162 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1386 | 1141 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1429 | 1130 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1412 | — |
| WildBench | — | 71.1% |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral Large 3 better than Mixtral 8x22B?

Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Mistral Large 3 or Mixtral 8x22B?

Mistral Large 3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.75 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x22B lists at $2 and $6.

### Is Mistral Large 3 or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?

Mistral Large 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Large 3 does, with 262K tokens against 64K.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral Large 3 and Mixtral 8x22B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Large 3 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.