# Mixtral 8x22B vs QwQ-32B

> QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 26.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mixtral-8x22b-vs-qwq-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 22

## Summary

- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Mixtral 8x22B scores higher in 0 categories and QwQ-32B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where QwQ-32B leads 37.2 to 15.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 34.1% for Mixtral 8x22B and 65.3% for QwQ-32B.

## Snapshot

| | Mixtral 8x22B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 26.7 | 39.4 |
| Rank | 330 | 153 |
| Context | 64K | — |
| Input $/M | $2 | — |
| Output $/M | $6 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mixtral 8x22B: 23.8 (#324)
- QwQ-32B: 34.9 (#220)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 40.6% | 44.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1166 | 1333 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 50.2% | 54.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| WeirdML | 3.2% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| HumanEval+ | 72% | — |
| MBPP+ | 64.3% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mixtral 8x22B: 22.8 (#119)
- QwQ-32B: —

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 7.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- Mixtral 8x22B: 19.1 (#246)
- QwQ-32B: 22.9 (#171)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1150 | 1326 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 122 | 137.6 |
| ForecastBench | 56.3 | 58.3 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| DTBench | 55.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |

## Math

- Mixtral 8x22B: 21.2 (#271)
- QwQ-32B: 36.2 (#123)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1184 | 1359 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 59.2% |
| Omni-MATH | 16.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |
| MATH Level 5 | 24.2% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#288)
- QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#150)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 34.1% | 65.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1113 | 1323 |
| MMLU-Pro | 46% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 33.4% | — |
| MMLU | 77.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Mixtral 8x22B: 32.9 (#250)
- QwQ-32B: 45.0 (#171)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1128 | 1306 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1116 | 1378 |
| LMArena French | 1165 | 1337 |
| LMArena German | 1141 | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1037 | 1263 |
| LMArena Korean | 1056 | 1278 |
| LMArena Russian | 1158 | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1150 | 1353 |

## Instruction Following

- Mixtral 8x22B: 57.9 (#261)
- QwQ-32B: 72.8 (#131)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1147 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |
| IFEval | 72.4% | — |

## Long Context

- Mixtral 8x22B: 34.6 (#242)
- QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1144 | 1308 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Mixtral 8x22B: 37.1 (#257)
- QwQ-32B: 50.9 (#175)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1162 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1141 | 1288 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1130 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1257 |
| WildBench | 71.1% | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Mixtral 8x22B better than QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 26.7 on the Noometry Index.

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

QwQ-32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.9 versus 23.8 in the Noometry coding category.

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

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mixtral 8x22B has 34 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.