# Mixtral 8x22B vs Sonar

> Sonar is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mixtral-8x22b-vs-sonar
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Sonar leads 52.6 to 36.9.
- Sonar is cheaper at $1 / $1 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Mixtral 8x22B.
- Sonar accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 64K.
- Mixtral 8x22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Mixtral 8x22B | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Perplexity |
| Noometry Index | 27.1 | 38.5 |
| Rank | 333 | 187 |
| Context | 64K | 128K |
| Input $/M | $2 | $1 |
| Output $/M | $6 | $1 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)
- Sonar: 35.7 (#221)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 3.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 40.6% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 35.1% |
| LMArena Coding | 1166 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 50.2% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 72% | — |
| MBPP+ | 64.3% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)
- Sonar: —

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 7.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)
- Sonar: 21.1 (#227)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 46.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1150 | — |
| DTBench | 55.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 37.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 122.03 | — |
| ForecastBench | 56.3 | — |
| LiveBench | — | 46.9% |

## Math

- Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)
- Sonar: 33.7 (#200)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 16.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 41.6% |
| LMArena Math | 1184 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 24.2% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)
- Sonar: —

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 34.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 46% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 33.4% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1113 | — |
| MMLU | 77.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)
- Sonar: —

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1128 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1116 | — |
| LMArena French | 1166 | — |
| LMArena German | 1141 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1037 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1057 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1158 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1151 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)
- Sonar: 71.4 (#150)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 76.2% |
| IFEval | 72.4% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1147 | — |

## Long Context

- Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)
- Sonar: —

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1144 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)
- Sonar: 52.6 (#167)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1162 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1141 | — |
| WildBench | 71.1% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1130 | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 44.1% |

## FAQ

### Is Mixtral 8x22B better than Sonar?

Sonar is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Mixtral 8x22B or Sonar?

Sonar is cheaper. It lists at $1 per million input tokens and $1 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x22B lists at $2 and $6.

### Is Mixtral 8x22B or Sonar better for coding?

Sonar scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.7 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Sonar does, with 128K tokens against 64K.

### How many benchmarks do Mixtral 8x22B and Sonar share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mixtral 8x22B has 34 scored results on Noometry and Sonar has 7.