# Mistral vs Mixtral 8x7B

> Mistral is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.4 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-vs-mixtral-8x7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 22

## Summary

- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral scores higher in 8 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Mistral leads 16.3 to 11.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 27.7% for Mistral and 33.5% for Mixtral 8x7B.
- Mixtral 8x7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.4 | 26.8 |
| Rank | 297 | 328 |
| Context | — | 32K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral: 33.2 (#249)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 32.2 (#265)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1162 | 1127 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 39.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 49.7% |

## Reasoning

- Mistral: 21.3 (#199)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 17.4 (#283)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1149 | 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

- Mistral: 20.5 (#275)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 17.2 (#284)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 7.2% | 10.5% |
| LMArena Math | 1180 | 1147 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 10% |
| GSM8K | — | 74.4% |

## Knowledge

- Mistral: 16.3 (#283)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#296)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 27.7% | 33.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.3% | 29.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1125 | 1088 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 30.6% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 87.3% |
| MMLU | — | 70.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 85.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 82.2% |

## Multilingual

- Mistral: 33.0 (#249)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 29.8 (#261)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1129 | 1077 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1109 | 1055 |
| LMArena French | 1179 | 1165 |
| LMArena German | 1155 | 1114 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1012 | 931 |
| LMArena Korean | 1032 | 968 |
| LMArena Russian | 1168 | 1090 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1143 | 1110 |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral: 52.9 (#283)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 51.2 (#292)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 56.8% | 57.5% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1152 | 1110 |

## Long Context

- Mistral: 35.0 (#240)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#255)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1154 | 1103 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral: 37.2 (#255)
- Mixtral 8x7B: 34.4 (#265)

| Benchmark | Mistral | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1165 | 1132 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1158 | 1109 |
| WildBench | 66% | 67.3% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1147 | 1115 |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral better than Mixtral 8x7B?

Mistral is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.4 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Mistral or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?

Mistral scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.2 versus 32.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral and Mixtral 8x7B share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral has 22 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.