Model comparison
Llama 3.2 90B vs Mixtral 8x22B
Llama 3.2 90B and Mixtral 8x22B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (27.5 vs 27.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
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Mistral AISummary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3.2 90B scores higher in 3 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Mixtral 8x22B leads 22.9 to 11.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 39.4% for Llama 3.2 90B and 24.2% for Mixtral 8x22B.
Side by side
| Llama 3.2 90B | Mixtral 8x22B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 27.5 | 27.1 |
| Released | 2024-09-24 | 2024-04-17 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 64K |
| Max output | — | 64K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $6 |
| Results tracked | 9 | 34 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | — | 3.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 40.6% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1166 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 50.2% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 72% |
| MBPP+ | — | 64.3% |
Agentic & Tool Use Llama 3.2 90B leads
Llama 3.2 90B: 30.0 (#80), Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)
Reasoning Llama 3.2 90B leads
Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#217), Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 125.5 | 122.03 |
| EnigmaEval | 0.4% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1150 |
| DTBench | — | 55.1% |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
Math Mixtral 8x22B leads
Llama 3.2 90B: 11.1 (#308), Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | 39.4% | 24.2% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.6% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 16.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1184 |
Knowledge Llama 3.2 90B leads
Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#274), Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 41% | 34.1% |
| MMLU | 80.3% | 77.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 46% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 33.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1113 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: 25.4 (#124), Mixtral 8x22B: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1000 | — |
| GeoBench | 52% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1128 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1116 |
| LMArena French | — | 1166 |
| LMArena German | — | 1141 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1037 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1057 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1158 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1151 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 72.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1147 |
Long Context Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1144 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1162 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1141 |
| WildBench | — | 71.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1130 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 3.2 90B better than Mixtral 8x22B?
Llama 3.2 90B and Mixtral 8x22B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (27.5 vs 27.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
How many benchmarks do Llama 3.2 90B and Mixtral 8x22B share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.2 90B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.