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Mixtral 7B on Arena Elo: score, rank and what it means

Mixtral 7B scores 1216.6 on Arena Elo, placing it #537 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 1349.9 and the leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Max at 1501.9.

Score
1216.6
0–100 scale
Rank
#537
of 600
Percentile
11th
within the index
Benchmark avg
1349.9
all models
Leader
1501.9
Claude Opus 4.5 Max
Gap to leader
285.3
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on Arena Elo, with Mixtral 7B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

Claude Opus 4.5 Max 1501.9
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 1500.4
GPT-5.2 Turbo 1500.3
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 1497.5
GPT-5.2 Max 1495.3
Gemini 3 Pro Turbo 1494.9
Grok 4 Max 1491.4
Claude Opus 4.5 1491.2
GPT-5.1 Pro 1490.0
Grok 4 Reasoning 1487.6

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
2 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
3 GPT-5.2 Turbo OpenAI 1000000 $20.73 87.4
4 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2
5 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
6 Gemini 3 Pro Turbo Google DeepMind 400000 $19.62 86.4
7 Grok 4 Max xAI 2000000 $19.70 86.6
8 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
9 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
10 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8

What this score means

On Arena Elo, Mixtral 7B sits at #537 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Max, scores 1501.9, so the gap to the top is 285.3 points. The median model in this index scores 1373.8, which puts Mixtral 7B below the midpoint.

Mistral AI models average 1329.1 on this benchmark. Mixtral 7B is 112.5 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Mistral AI model.

Among small open-weight models, the average is 1224.7. Mixtral 7B is 8.1 points below that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 1216.6 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.

Price context

At $0.70 per million input tokens, Mixtral 7B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on Arena Elo. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Llama 4 Scout 1.5B Meta AI 8192 $0.66 53.0
Mixtral Turbo 7B Together AI 8192 $0.68 53.2
GLM-4.5 1.5B Zhipu AI 16384 $0.65 53.3
Yi-Large 7B 01.AI 4096 $0.83 55.0
Mixtral 7B Mistral AI 16384 $0.70 54.1
Qwen3-Coder 1.5B Alibaba Cloud 32768 $0.76 52.8
DBRX 7B Databricks 8192 $0.65 51.9

Other benchmarks for Mixtral 7B

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 61.8 505 16th
GPQA Diamond 50.8 513 15th
SWE-bench Verified 38.7 532 11th
HumanEval 56.8 532 11th
MATH-500 51.6 545 9th
AIME 2025 42.3 530 12th
LiveCodeBench 41.7 528 12th
IFEval 66.5 512 15th
TruthfulQA 59.9 531 12th
HellaSwag 70.3 531 12th
MMMU 54.6 502 16th

FAQ

What score does Mixtral 7B get on Arena Elo?

Mixtral 7B scores 1216.6 on Arena Elo in this index. The benchmark average is 1349.9 and the top score is 1501.9.

How does Mixtral 7B rank on Arena Elo?

It ranks #537 of 600 models, in the 11th percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Max at 1501.9.

Is Mixtral 7B good at Arena Elo?

It is below the median for this benchmark, so test it carefully before relying on it for this capability. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the Arena Elo score calculated?

Arena Elo is a preference benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.

What does Mixtral 7B cost?

Mixtral 7B costs $0.70 per million input tokens and $3.13 per million output tokens.

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