Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs Mixtral 8x22B

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B Google

29.9

Rank #301 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x22B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #333 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 7 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads 35.5 to 24.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 50% for Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and 55.1% for Mixtral 8x22B.
  • Mixtral 8x22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8BMixtral 8x22B
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index29.927.1
Released2024-10-032024-04-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—64K
Max output—64K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked2134

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225), Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Coding12181166
WeirdML—3.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct—40.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—50.2%
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—64.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMixtral 8x22B
Cybench—7.5%

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244), Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Hard Prompts12091150
DTBench50%55.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—122.03
ForecastBench—56.3

Math Mixtral 8x22B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302), Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Math12071184
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.6%—
Omni-MATH—16.3%
MATH Level 5—24.2%

Knowledge Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289), Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMixtral 8x22B
GPQA Diamond33%34.1%
LMArena Expert11851113
MMLU-Pro—46%
GPQA (HELM)—33.4%
MMLU—77.8%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115), Mixtral 8x22B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Vision1044—

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229), Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Non-English12151128
LMArena Chinese12311116
LMArena French12341166
LMArena German12061141
LMArena Japanese11501037
LMArena Korean11401057
LMArena Russian12361158
LMArena Spanish12121151

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236), Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Instruction Following11991147
IFEval—72.4%

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225), Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Longer Query12191144

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232), Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BMixtral 8x22B
LMArena Text12261162
LMArena Creative Writing12181141
LMArena Multi-Turn11851130
WildBench—71.1%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than Mixtral 8x22B?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Mixtral 8x22B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.

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