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Mixtral 8B on GPQA Diamond: score, rank and what it means

Mixtral 8B scores 52.3 on GPQA Diamond, placing it #498 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 65.6 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Reasoning at 87.0.

Score
52.3
0–100 scale
Rank
#498
of 600
Percentile
17th
within the index
Benchmark avg
65.6
all models
Leader
87.0
GPT-5.2 Reasoning
Gap to leader
34.7
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on GPQA Diamond, with Mixtral 8B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

GPT-5.2 Reasoning 87.0
GPT-5.1 Max 86.4
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 86.0
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 85.6
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning 85.2
GPT-5.2 84.9
o4 Turbo 84.8
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 84.6
Grok 4 Turbo 84.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Max 84.4

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
2 GPT-5.1 Max OpenAI 2000000 $20.50 87.9
3 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
4 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
5 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 400000 $19.48 87.7
6 GPT-5.2 OpenAI 2000000 $19.71 88.0
7 o4 Turbo OpenAI 2000000 $19.34 86.6
8 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
9 Grok 4 Turbo xAI 1000000 $19.21 86.7
10 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $19.90 87.2

What this score means

On GPQA Diamond, Mixtral 8B sits at #498 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Reasoning, scores 87.0, so the gap to the top is 34.7 points. The median model in this index scores 68.8, which puts Mixtral 8B below the midpoint.

Mistral AI models average 63.3 on this benchmark. Mixtral 8B is 11.0 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 49.3. Mixtral 8B is 3.0 points above that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 52.3 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 $0.91 per million input tokens, Mixtral 8B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on GPQA Diamond. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Firefunction Nano Fireworks AI 16384 $3.07 58.1
Llama 3 Lambda 7B Lambda 8192 $0.84 55.4
Embed 4 Mini Cohere 4096 $2.48 55.8
Mistral Large 3 1.5B Mistral AI 32768 $0.82 55.4
Mixtral 8B Mistral AI 8192 $0.91 55.4
Yi-Large 8B 01.AI 32768 $0.88 56.1
Llama 3.1 Turbo 7B Together AI 8192 $0.98 56.4

Other benchmarks for Mixtral 8B

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 62.0 502 16th
SWE-bench Verified 41.1 510 15th
HumanEval 58.6 516 14th
MATH-500 56.3 504 16th
AIME 2025 44.3 504 16th
LiveCodeBench 41.9 526 12th
IFEval 68.4 484 19th
TruthfulQA 61.4 515 14th
HellaSwag 71.5 510 15th
MMMU 52.1 529 12th
Arena Elo 1252.7 487 19th

FAQ

What score does Mixtral 8B get on GPQA Diamond?

Mixtral 8B scores 52.3 on GPQA Diamond in this index. The benchmark average is 65.6 and the top score is 87.0.

How does Mixtral 8B rank on GPQA Diamond?

It ranks #498 of 600 models, in the 17th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Reasoning at 87.0.

Is Mixtral 8B good at GPQA Diamond?

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 GPQA Diamond score calculated?

GPQA Diamond is a reasoning 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 8B cost?

Mixtral 8B costs $0.91 per million input tokens and $4.38 per million output tokens.

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