Model comparison
Mistral Medium vs Mixtral 8x7B
Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index. Mixtral 8x7B costs 4.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AISummary
- They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Medium scores higher in 8 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium leads 60.0 to 34.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 81.6% for Mistral Medium and 10% for Mixtral 8x7B.
- Mixtral 8x7B is cheaper at $0.70 / $0.70 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium.
- Mistral Medium accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 32K.
Side by side
| Mistral Medium | Mixtral 8x7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 36.3 | 27.1 |
| Released | 2023-12-11 | 2023-12-11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | 32K |
| Max output | 262K | 32K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1.50 | $0.70 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $7.50 | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 36 | 38 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Medium leads
Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1434 | 1126 |
| FrontierCode | 8% | — |
| SciCode | 40.2% | — |
| WeirdML | 43.7% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 763.98 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 39.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 49.7% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90), Mixtral 8x7B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.7% | — |
Reasoning Mistral Medium leads
Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1426 | 1115 |
| DTBench | 75.5% | 49.6% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 50% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LMCA | 26.1% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 26.9% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.47 |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
| HellaSwag | — | 86.7% |
| PIQA | — | 83.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 77.2% |
Math Mistral Medium leads
Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1408 | 1147 |
| MATH Level 5 | 81.6% | 10% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 32.2% | — |
| ProofBench | 9% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 10.5% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 74.4% |
Knowledge Mistral Medium leads
Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 59.5% | 30.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1408 | 1088 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.5% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 33.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 22.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 29.6% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 87.3% |
| MMLU | — | 70.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 85.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 82.2% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88), Mixtral 8x7B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1172 | — |
Multilingual Mistral Medium leads
Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1408 | 1077 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1447 | 1055 |
| LMArena French | 1459 | 1166 |
| LMArena German | 1432 | 1114 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1378 | 931 |
| LMArena Korean | 1380 | 968 |
| LMArena Russian | 1411 | 1090 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1433 | 1111 |
Instruction Following Mistral Medium leads
Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1398 | 1109 |
| IFEval | — | 57.5% |
Long Context Mistral Medium leads
Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114), Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1406 | 1103 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Medium leads
Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1424 | 1132 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1391 | 1109 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1418 | 1115 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 77.3% | — |
| WildBench | — | 67.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Medium better than Mixtral 8x7B?
Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index. Mixtral 8x7B costs 4.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium or Mixtral 8x7B?
Mixtral 8x7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.70 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium lists at $1.50 and $7.50.
Is Mistral Medium or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?
Mistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.2 versus 32.8 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Mistral Medium does, with 262K tokens against 32K.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium and Mixtral 8x7B share?
20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium has 36 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.