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Mixtral Instruct on TruthfulQA: score, rank and what it means

Mixtral Instruct scores 75.4 on TruthfulQA, placing it #322 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 73.6 and the leader is GPT-5.1 Max at 91.1.

Score
75.4
0–100 scale
Rank
#322
of 600
Percentile
46th
within the index
Benchmark avg
73.6
all models
Leader
91.1
GPT-5.1 Max
Gap to leader
15.7
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on TruthfulQA, with Mixtral Instruct highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

GPT-5.1 Max 91.1
Gemini 3 Pro Reasoning 90.3
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 90.0
GPT-5.2 Pro 90.0
GPT-5.2 89.7
Gemini 3 Pro Max 89.6
Grok 4 Reasoning 89.4
Qwen3-Max Max 89.3
GPT-5.1 89.2
GPT-5.1 Turbo 89.2

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.1 Max OpenAI 2000000 $20.50 87.9
2 Gemini 3 Pro Reasoning Google DeepMind 200000 $19.69 87.5
3 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
4 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
5 GPT-5.2 OpenAI 2000000 $19.71 88.0
6 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9
7 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8
8 Qwen3-Max Max Alibaba Cloud 400000 $18.53 85.9
9 GPT-5.1 OpenAI 2000000 $19.01 86.0
10 GPT-5.1 Turbo OpenAI 2000000 $19.19 86.1

What this score means

On TruthfulQA, Mixtral Instruct sits at #322 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.1 Max, scores 91.1, so the gap to the top is 15.7 points. The median model in this index scores 76.3, which puts Mixtral Instruct below the midpoint.

Mistral AI models average 71.0 on this benchmark. Mixtral Instruct is 4.4 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Mistral AI model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 80.1. Mixtral Instruct is 4.7 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 75.4 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 $3.35 per million input tokens, Mixtral Instruct is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on TruthfulQA. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Gemma 3 Base Google DeepMind 65536 $3.09 71.1
Claude Haiku 4.5 Mini Anthropic 16384 $8.76 71.6
Llama 3 Replicate Replicate 200000 $3.75 75.7
OLMo 2 Allen Institute for AI 65536 $2.99 71.0
Mixtral Instruct Mistral AI 65536 $3.35 72.9
Nemotron 4 Base NVIDIA 8192 $3.29 73.0
o3 Nano OpenAI 32768 $7.78 70.6

Other benchmarks for Mixtral Instruct

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 77.0 279 54th
GPQA Diamond 67.6 320 47th
SWE-bench Verified 61.0 299 50th
HumanEval 78.2 286 52th
MATH-500 75.6 312 48th
AIME 2025 69.0 282 53th
LiveCodeBench 66.2 271 55th
IFEval 79.8 336 44th
HellaSwag 82.0 348 42th
MMMU 70.2 293 51th
Arena Elo 1362.7 338 44th

FAQ

What score does Mixtral Instruct get on TruthfulQA?

Mixtral Instruct scores 75.4 on TruthfulQA in this index. The benchmark average is 73.6 and the top score is 91.1.

How does Mixtral Instruct rank on TruthfulQA?

It ranks #322 of 600 models, in the 46th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.1 Max at 91.1.

Is Mixtral Instruct good at TruthfulQA?

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 TruthfulQA score calculated?

TruthfulQA is a safety 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 Instruct cost?

Mixtral Instruct costs $3.35 per million input tokens and $18.19 per million output tokens.

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