1-bit Bonsai 1.7B vs Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

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· Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

Quick Verdict

Pick 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you need the larger 64K context window.

1-bit Bonsai 1.7B has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 39 versus 36. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

1-bit Bonsai 1.7B's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 45.1 against 38.5. Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 gives you the larger context window at 64K, compared with 32K for 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context32K64K

Decision framing

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Benchmark1-bit Bonsai 1.7BMixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.035%
BrowseComp32%
OSWorld-Verified28%
Coding
HumanEval54.8%
SWE-bench Pro40%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro35%
OfficeQA Pro36%
Reasoning1-bit Bonsai 1.7B wins
MuSR45.1%
LongBench v239%
MRCRv238%
KnowledgeMixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 wins
GPQA20.7%
MMLU77.8%
FrontierScience53%
Instruction Following
IFEval63%
Multilingual
MMLU-ProX42%
Mathematics
MATH-50034.4%
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Which is better, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1?

1-bit Bonsai 1.7B is ahead overall, 39 to 36.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1?

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 53 versus 20.7. 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Which is better for reasoning, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1?

1-bit Bonsai 1.7B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 45.1 versus 38.5. Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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