# Mixtral 8x7B vs StarCoder 2 7B

> Mixtral 8x7B has enough public results to be ranked (#334); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mixtral-8x7b-vs-starcoder-2-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 6

## Summary

- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Mixtral 8x7B scores higher in 0 categories and StarCoder 2 7B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.

## Snapshot

| | Mixtral 8x7B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 27.1 | 37.0 |
| Rank | 334 | — |
| Context | 32K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.70 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.70 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)
- StarCoder 2 7B: 34.8

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 39.6% | 29.9% |
| LMArena Coding | 1126 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.7% |
| MBPP+ | 49.7% | — |

## Reasoning

- Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.47 | 93.56 |
| WinoGrande | 77.2% | 57.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1115 | — |
| DTBench | 49.6% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | 55.2% | — |
| ForecastBench | 56.3 | — |
| HellaSwag | 86.7% | — |
| PIQA | 83.6% | — |

## Math

- Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 74.4% | 32.7% |
| Omni-MATH | 10.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1147 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 10% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 87.3% | 38.7% |
| MMLU | 70.6% | 38.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | 30.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 33.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 29.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1088 | — |
| OpenBookQA | 85.8% | — |
| TriviaQA | 82.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1077 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1055 | — |
| LMArena French | 1166 | — |
| LMArena German | 1114 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 931 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 968 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1090 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1111 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 57.5% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1109 | — |

## Long Context

- Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1103 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x7B | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1132 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1109 | — |
| WildBench | 67.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1115 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mixtral 8x7B better than StarCoder 2 7B?

Mixtral 8x7B has enough public results to be ranked (#334); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Mixtral 8x7B or StarCoder 2 7B better for coding?

StarCoder 2 7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.8 versus 32.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Mixtral 8x7B and StarCoder 2 7B share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mixtral 8x7B has 38 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 7B has 7.