# Mixtral 8x7B vs Qwen2-72B

> Qwen2-72B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.5 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mixtral-8x7b-vs-qwen2-72b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 21

## Summary

- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Mixtral 8x7B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen2-72B in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Qwen2-72B leads 62.0 to 51.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 10% for Mixtral 8x7B and 39.1% for Qwen2-72B.

## Snapshot

| | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 26.8 | 29.5 |
| Rank | 328 | 294 |
| Context | 32K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.70 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.70 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mixtral 8x7B: 32.2 (#265)
- Qwen2-72B: 28.7 (#303)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1127 | 1196 |
| WeirdML | — | 11.3% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 38.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54% |
| HumanEval+ | 39.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 49.7% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mixtral 8x7B: —
- Qwen2-72B: 16.9 (#138)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 1.1% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 29.9% |

## Reasoning

- Mixtral 8x7B: 17.4 (#283)
- Qwen2-72B: 22.2 (#184)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1115 | 1191 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.38 | 125.27 |
| DTBench | 49.6% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | 55.2% | — |
| ForecastBench | 56.3 | — |
| HellaSwag | 86.7% | — |
| PIQA | 83.6% | — |
| WinoGrande | 77.2% | — |

## Math

- Mixtral 8x7B: 17.2 (#284)
- Qwen2-72B: 27.9 (#232)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1147 | 1235 |
| MATH Level 5 | 10% | 39.1% |
| Omni-MATH | 10.5% | — |
| GSM8K | 74.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#296)
- Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#270)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 30.6% | 40.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1088 | 1171 |
| MMLU | 70.6% | 82.4% |
| MMLU-Pro | 33.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 29.6% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 87.3% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 85.8% | — |
| TriviaQA | 82.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Mixtral 8x7B: 29.8 (#261)
- Qwen2-72B: 36.0 (#239)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1077 | 1176 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1055 | 1240 |
| LMArena French | 1165 | 1169 |
| LMArena German | 1114 | 1151 |
| LMArena Japanese | 931 | 1111 |
| LMArena Korean | 968 | 1083 |
| LMArena Russian | 1090 | 1169 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1110 | 1168 |

## Instruction Following

- Mixtral 8x7B: 51.2 (#292)
- Qwen2-72B: 62.0 (#236)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1110 | 1181 |
| IFEval | 57.5% | — |

## Long Context

- Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#255)
- Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#230)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1103 | 1193 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mixtral 8x7B: 34.4 (#265)
- Qwen2-72B: 41.0 (#236)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1132 | 1203 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1109 | 1181 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1115 | 1195 |
| WildBench | 67.3% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mixtral 8x7B better than Qwen2-72B?

Qwen2-72B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.5 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Mixtral 8x7B or Qwen2-72B better for coding?

Mixtral 8x7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.2 versus 28.7 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Mixtral 8x7B and Qwen2-72B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mixtral 8x7B has 38 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.