Model comparison

Llama 4 Scout vs Mixtral 8x7B

Llama 4 Scout and Mixtral 8x7B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (27.7 vs 27.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.

Llama 4 Scout Meta

27.7

Rank #330 Confirmed

Mixtral 8x7B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #334 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 4 Scout scores higher in 5 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 4 Scout leads 31.9 to 11.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 62.3% for Llama 4 Scout and 10% for Mixtral 8x7B.
  • Llama 4 Scout is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.30 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $0.70 for Mixtral 8x7B.
  • Llama 4 Scout accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 32K.

Side by side

Llama 4 Scout and Mixtral 8x7B specifications
Llama 4 ScoutMixtral 8x7B
ProviderMetaMistral AI
Noometry Index27.727.1
Released2025-04-052023-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K32K
Max output4K32K
Input $ / M tokens$0.10$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$0.30$0.70
Results tracked4338

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Category by category

Coding Mixtral 8x7B leads

Llama 4 Scout: 20.2 (#339), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 ScoutMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Coding12861126
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)9.1%—
SciCode17%—
BigCodeBench Complete43.1%—
HumanEval+—39.6%
MBPP+—49.7%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 4 Scout: 24.6 (#119), Mixtral 8x7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 ScoutMixtral 8x7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard28.1%—

Reasoning Mixtral 8x7B leads

Llama 4 Scout: 9.1 (#345), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 ScoutMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Hard Prompts12661115
DTBench57.9%49.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index129.64118.47
ForecastBench57.556.3
ARC-AGI-20%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark36.9%—
ARC-AGI-10.5%—
CritPt0%—
LMCA12%—
Adversarial NLI—55.2%
HellaSwag—86.7%
PIQA—83.6%
WinoGrande—77.2%

Math Too close to call

Llama 4 Scout: 19.6 (#286), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 ScoutMixtral 8x7B
Omni-MATH37.3%10.5%
LMArena Math12871147
MATH Level 562.3%10%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20257.8%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%—
GSM8K—74.4%

Knowledge Llama 4 Scout leads

Llama 4 Scout: 31.9 (#217), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 ScoutMixtral 8x7B
GPQA Diamond51.8%30.6%
MMLU-Pro74.2%33.5%
GPQA (HELM)50.7%29.6%
LMArena Expert12351088
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.7%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—87.3%
MMLU—70.6%
OpenBookQA—85.8%
TriviaQA—82.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 4 Scout: 32.2 (#102), Mixtral 8x7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 ScoutMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Vision1118—
SpatialViz-Bench34.2%—

Multilingual Llama 4 Scout leads

Llama 4 Scout: 41.0 (#212), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 ScoutMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Non-English12521077
LMArena Chinese12551055
LMArena French12821166
LMArena German12721114
LMArena Japanese1206931
LMArena Korean1207968
LMArena Russian12631090
LMArena Spanish12781111

Instruction Following Llama 4 Scout leads

Llama 4 Scout: 65.8 (#217), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 ScoutMixtral 8x7B
IFEval81.8%57.5%
LMArena Instruction Following12481109

Long Context Mixtral 8x7B leads

Llama 4 Scout: 27.5 (#294), Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 ScoutMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Longer Query12651103
Fiction.LiveBench36%—

Writing & Preference Llama 4 Scout leads

Llama 4 Scout: 37.0 (#261), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 ScoutMixtral 8x7B
LMArena Text12791132
LMArena Creative Writing12491109
WildBench78%67.3%
LMArena Multi-Turn12801115
EQ-Bench Creative Writing783—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 4 Scout better than Mixtral 8x7B?

Llama 4 Scout and Mixtral 8x7B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (27.7 vs 27.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Scout or Mixtral 8x7B?

Llama 4 Scout is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x7B lists at $0.70 and $0.70.

Is Llama 4 Scout or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?

Mixtral 8x7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.8 versus 20.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Llama 4 Scout does, with 128K tokens against 32K.

How many benchmarks do Llama 4 Scout and Mixtral 8x7B share?

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 4 Scout has 43 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.

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