# Mixtral 8x22B vs Qwen3 32B

> Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 26.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mixtral-8x22b-vs-qwen3-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 16

## Summary

- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Mixtral 8x22B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 32B in 9 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3 32B leads 40.0 to 15.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 34.1% for Mixtral 8x22B and 65.7% for Qwen3 32B.
- Qwen3 32B is cheaper at $0.70 / $2.80 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Mixtral 8x22B.
- Qwen3 32B accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 64K.

## Snapshot

| | Mixtral 8x22B | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 26.7 | 38.8 |
| Rank | 330 | 166 |
| Context | 64K | 131K |
| Input $/M | $2 | $0.70 |
| Output $/M | $6 | $2.80 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mixtral 8x22B: 23.8 (#324)
- Qwen3 32B: 37.3 (#184)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1166 | 1358 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 40% |
| SciCode | — | 35.4% |
| WeirdML | 3.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 40.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 50.2% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 72% | — |
| MBPP+ | 64.3% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mixtral 8x22B: 22.8 (#119)
- Qwen3 32B: 32.3 (#58)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 48.7% |
| Cybench | 7.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- Mixtral 8x22B: 19.1 (#246)
- Qwen3 32B: 19.6 (#233)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1150 | 1335 |
| DTBench | 55.1% | 67.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 122 | 138.51 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 54.9% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LMCA | — | 17.3% |
| ForecastBench | 56.3 | — |

## Math

- Mixtral 8x22B: 21.2 (#271)
- Qwen3 32B: 37.9 (#89)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1184 | 1399 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 66.9% |
| Omni-MATH | 16.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 24.2% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#288)
- Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#112)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 34.1% | 65.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1113 | 1362 |
| MMLU-Pro | 46% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 33.4% | — |
| MMLU | 77.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Mixtral 8x22B: 32.9 (#250)
- Qwen3 32B: 45.8 (#162)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1128 | 1317 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1116 | 1357 |
| LMArena German | 1141 | 1341 |
| LMArena Russian | 1158 | 1311 |
| LMArena French | 1165 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1037 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1056 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1150 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mixtral 8x22B: 57.9 (#261)
- Qwen3 32B: 69.1 (#174)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1147 | 1305 |
| IFEval | 72.4% | — |

## Long Context

- Mixtral 8x22B: 34.6 (#242)
- Qwen3 32B: 43.7 (#83)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1144 | 1327 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 74.2% |

## Writing & Preference

- Mixtral 8x22B: 37.1 (#257)
- Qwen3 32B: 53.1 (#158)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1162 | 1340 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1141 | 1297 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1130 | 1331 |
| WildBench | 71.1% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mixtral 8x22B better than Qwen3 32B?

Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 26.7 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Mixtral 8x22B or Qwen3 32B?

Qwen3 32B is cheaper. It lists at $0.70 per million input tokens and $2.80 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x22B lists at $2 and $6.

### Is Mixtral 8x22B or Qwen3 32B better for coding?

Qwen3 32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.3 versus 23.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3 32B does, with 131K tokens against 64K.

### How many benchmarks do Mixtral 8x22B and Qwen3 32B share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mixtral 8x22B has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.