# Mixtral 8x7B vs QwQ-32B

> QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mixtral-8x7b-vs-qwq-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 20

## Summary

- They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Mixtral 8x7B 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 11.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 30.6% for Mixtral 8x7B and 65.3% for QwQ-32B.

## Snapshot

| | Mixtral 8x7B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 27.1 | 39.8 |
| Rank | 334 | 159 |
| Context | 32K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.70 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.70 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)
- QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1126 | 1333 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 44.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.4% |
| HumanEval+ | 39.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 49.7% | — |

## Reasoning

- Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)
- QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1115 | 1325 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.47 | 137.6 |
| ForecastBench | 56.3 | 58.3 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| DTBench | 49.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| Adversarial NLI | 55.2% | — |
| HellaSwag | 86.7% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |
| PIQA | 83.6% | — |
| WinoGrande | 77.2% | — |

## Math

- Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)
- QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1147 | 1359 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 59.2% |
| Omni-MATH | 10.5% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |
| MATH Level 5 | 10% | — |
| GSM8K | 74.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)
- QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 30.6% | 65.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1088 | 1324 |
| MMLU-Pro | 33.5% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 29.6% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 87.3% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 85.8% | — |
| TriviaQA | 82.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)
- QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1077 | 1305 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1055 | 1378 |
| LMArena French | 1166 | 1336 |
| LMArena German | 1114 | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | 931 | 1262 |
| LMArena Korean | 968 | 1279 |
| LMArena Russian | 1090 | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1111 | 1354 |

## Instruction Following

- Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)
- QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1109 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |
| IFEval | 57.5% | — |

## Long Context

- Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)
- QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1103 | 1308 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)
- QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1132 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1109 | 1288 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1115 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1257 |
| WildBench | 67.3% | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Mixtral 8x7B better than QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Mixtral 8x7B or QwQ-32B better for coding?

QwQ-32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.4 versus 32.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Mixtral 8x7B and QwQ-32B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mixtral 8x7B has 38 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.