Model comparison
Mistral Nemo vs Mixtral 8x7B
Mistral Nemo and Mixtral 8x7B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (26.4 vs 27.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Nemo scores higher in 3 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Mistral Nemo leads 25.5 to 18.8.
- Mistral Nemo is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $0.70 for Mixtral 8x7B.
- Mistral Nemo accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 32K.
Side by side
| Mistral Nemo | Mixtral 8x7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 26.4 | 27.1 |
| Released | 2024-07-01 | 2023-12-11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 32K |
| Max output | 128K | 32K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.15 | $0.70 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.15 | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 10 | 38 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mistral Nemo: —, Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)
| Benchmark | Mistral Nemo | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1126 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 39.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 49.7% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125), Mixtral 8x7B: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Nemo | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 27.6% | — |
| BALROG | 17.6% | — |
Reasoning Mistral Nemo leads
Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)
| Benchmark | Mistral Nemo | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 48.6% | 49.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.68 | 118.47 |
| PIQA | 83.5% | 83.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1115 |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.2% |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
| HellaSwag | — | 86.7% |
| WinoGrande | — | 77.2% |
Math Mistral Nemo leads
Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)
| Benchmark | Mistral Nemo | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | 10.8% | 10% |
| GSM8K | 84.2% | 74.4% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 10.5% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1147 |
Knowledge Mistral Nemo leads
Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)
| Benchmark | Mistral Nemo | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 29.9% | 30.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 33.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 29.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1088 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 87.3% |
| BoolQ | 82.5% | — |
| MMLU | — | 70.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 85.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 82.2% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral Nemo: —, Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)
| Benchmark | Mistral Nemo | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1077 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1055 |
| LMArena French | — | 1166 |
| LMArena German | — | 1114 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 931 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 968 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1090 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1111 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mistral Nemo: —, Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)
| Benchmark | Mistral Nemo | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 57.5% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1109 |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral Nemo: —, Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)
| Benchmark | Mistral Nemo | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1103 |
Writing & Preference Mixtral 8x7B leads
Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)
| Benchmark | Mistral Nemo | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1132 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1109 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 881 | — |
| WildBench | — | 67.3% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1115 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Nemo better than Mixtral 8x7B?
Mistral Nemo and Mixtral 8x7B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (26.4 vs 27.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Mistral Nemo or Mixtral 8x7B?
Mistral Nemo is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Mixtral 8x7B lists at $0.70 and $0.70.
Which has the bigger context window?
Mistral Nemo does, with 128K tokens against 32K.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Nemo and Mixtral 8x7B share?
6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Nemo has 10 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.