# Mixtral 8x22B vs o1-mini

> o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mixtral-8x22b-vs-o1-mini
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 24

## Summary

- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Mixtral 8x22B scores higher in 1 category and o1-mini in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where o1-mini leads 34.9 to 15.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 24.2% for Mixtral 8x22B and 89.2% for o1-mini.
- Mixtral 8x22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mixtral 8x22B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 27.1 | 34.0 |
| Rank | 333 | 235 |
| Context | 64K | — |
| Input $/M | $2 | — |
| Output $/M | $6 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)
- o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 3.2% | 36.3% |
| LMArena Coding | 1166 | 1362 |
| HumanEval+ | 72% | 89% |
| MBPP+ | 64.3% | 78.8% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 32.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 40.6% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 48% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 50.2% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)
- o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 7.5% | 10% |

## Reasoning

- Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)
- o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1150 | 1333 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 122.03 | 135.82 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.8% |
| SimpleBench | — | 18.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 14% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 72.3% |
| DTBench | 55.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 57.9% |
| ForecastBench | 56.3 | — |
| LiveBench | — | 57.8% |

## Math

- Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)
- o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1184 | 1358 |
| MATH Level 5 | 24.2% | 89.2% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 46.9% |
| Omni-MATH | 16.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 62% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |

## Knowledge

- Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)
- o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 34.1% | 62.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1113 | 1316 |
| MMLU-Pro | 46% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 18.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 33.4% | — |
| MMLU | 77.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)
- o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1128 | 1289 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1116 | 1314 |
| LMArena French | 1166 | 1293 |
| LMArena German | 1141 | 1278 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1037 | 1245 |
| LMArena Korean | 1057 | 1223 |
| LMArena Russian | 1158 | 1283 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1151 | 1303 |

## Instruction Following

- Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)
- o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1147 | 1304 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 65.4% |
| IFEval | 72.4% | — |

## Long Context

- Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)
- o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1144 | 1320 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)
- o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1162 | 1317 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1141 | 1244 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1130 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 64.9% |
| WildBench | 71.1% | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 40.9% |

## FAQ

### Is Mixtral 8x22B better than o1-mini?

o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Mixtral 8x22B or o1-mini better for coding?

o1-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Mixtral 8x22B and o1-mini share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mixtral 8x22B has 34 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.