Model comparison

GPT-5.2 vs Mixtral 8x7B

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index. Mixtral 8x7B costs 6.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.2's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.2 OpenAI

54.1

Rank #31 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x7B Mistral AI

26.8

Rank #328 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.2 scores higher in 8 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-5.2 leads 59.2 to 11.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 91.4% for GPT-5.2 and 30.6% for Mixtral 8x7B.
  • Mixtral 8x7B is cheaper at $0.70 / $0.70 per million input/output tokens, against $1.75 / $14 for GPT-5.2.
  • GPT-5.2 accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 32K.
  • Mixtral 8x7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.2 and Mixtral 8x7B specifications
GPT-5.2Mixtral 8x7B
ProviderOpenAIMistral AI
Noometry Index54.126.8
Released2025-12-112023-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K32K
Max output128K32K
Input $ / M tokens$1.75$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$14$0.70
Results tracked6738

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 52.2 (#32), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.2 (#265)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Coding14471127
SWE-bench Verified73.8%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)72.8%—
LMArena WebDev1415—
SWE-bench Multilingual66.7%—
GSO27.4%—
WeirdML72.2%—
ALE-Bench1,294—
AlgoTune2.05—
HumanEval+—39.6%
MBPP+—49.7%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 40.0 (#24), Mixtral 8x7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Mixtral 8x7B
Terminal-Bench64.9%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard55.9%—
GDPval49.7%—
Remote Labor Index2.5%—
τ²-bench Airline83%—
τ²-bench Banking32.2%—
τ²-bench Retail81.6%—
τ²-bench Telecom89.7%—
DeepResearch Bench41.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons75.3%—
Vending-Bench 23,591—

Reasoning GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 50.1 (#33), Mixtral 8x7B: 17.4 (#283)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Hard Prompts14451115
DTBench90.9%49.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index153.45118.38
ForecastBench60.156.3
ARC-AGI-252.9%—
SimpleBench45.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)83.6%—
ARC-AGI-186.2%—
Chess Puzzles49%—
EnigmaEval10.4%—
EBR-Bench23%—
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—
LMCA43.9%—
Adversarial NLI—55.2%
HellaSwag—86.7%
PIQA—83.6%
WinoGrande—77.2%

Math GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 59.8 (#32), Mixtral 8x7B: 17.2 (#284)

Knowledge GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 59.2 (#29), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#296)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Mixtral 8x7B
GPQA Diamond91.4%30.6%
LMArena Expert14451088
Humanity's Last Exam27.8%—
SimpleQA Verified37.1%—
MMLU-Pro—33.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.4%—
GPQA (HELM)—29.6%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—87.3%
MMLU—70.6%
OpenBookQA—85.8%
TriviaQA—82.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 50.9 (#7), Mixtral 8x7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Vision1268—
VPCT84%—
Furniture Assembly38.3%—
LMArena Document1405—

Multilingual GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 53.6 (#63), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.8 (#261)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Non-English14251077
LMArena Chinese14601055
LMArena French14561165
LMArena German14481114
LMArena Japanese1421931
LMArena Korean1390968
LMArena Russian14401090
LMArena Spanish14331110

Instruction Following GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 74.9 (#83), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.2 (#292)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Instruction Following14171110
IFEval—57.5%

Long Context GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 44.0 (#74), Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#255)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Longer Query14281103
CL-bench18.2%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 67.0 (#30), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.4 (#265)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Mixtral 8x7B
LMArena Text14391132
LMArena Creative Writing14021109
LMArena Multi-Turn14581115
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1703—
WildBench—67.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.2 better than Mixtral 8x7B?

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 26.8 on the Noometry Index. Mixtral 8x7B costs 6.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.2's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.2 or Mixtral 8x7B?

Mixtral 8x7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.70 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; GPT-5.2 lists at $1.75 and $14.

Is GPT-5.2 or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?

GPT-5.2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.2 versus 32.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.2 does, with 400K tokens against 32K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.2 and Mixtral 8x7B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.2 has 67 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.

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