1-bit Bonsai 1.7B vs Mistral 8x7B

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

1-bit Bonsai 1.7B· Mistral 8x7B

Quick Verdict

Pick Mistral 8x7B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Mistral 8x7B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 44 to 39. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Mistral 8x7B's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 67.1 against 34.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 20.7% to 64%.

Operational tradeoffs

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SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context32K32K

Decision framing

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Benchmark1-bit Bonsai 1.7BMistral 8x7B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.040%
BrowseComp47%
OSWorld-Verified38%
Coding
HumanEval32.3%
SWE-bench Verified28%
LiveCodeBench23%
SWE-bench Pro28%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro42%
OfficeQA Pro56%
ReasoningMistral 8x7B wins
MuSR45.1%61%
BBH67.1%
LongBench v257%
MRCRv253%
KnowledgeMistral 8x7B wins
GPQA20.7%64%
MMLU71.3%
SuperGPQA62%
MMLU-Pro65%
HLE8%
FrontierScience56%
SimpleQA63%
Instruction FollowingMistral 8x7B wins
IFEval63%78%
Multilingual
MGSM74%
MMLU-ProX71%
MathematicsMistral 8x7B wins
MATH-50034.4%73%
AIME 202365%
AIME 202467%
AIME 202566%
HMMT Feb 202361%
HMMT Feb 202463%
HMMT Feb 202562%
BRUMO 202564%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or Mistral 8x7B?

Mistral 8x7B is ahead overall, 44 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 20.7% and 64%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or Mistral 8x7B?

Mistral 8x7B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 49.5 versus 20.7. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or Mistral 8x7B?

Mistral 8x7B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 67.1 versus 34.4. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or Mistral 8x7B?

Mistral 8x7B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 56.7 versus 45.1. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or Mistral 8x7B?

Mistral 8x7B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 78 versus 63. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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