Side-by-side benchmark comparison across knowledge, coding, math, and reasoning.
Llama 4 Scout is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 42 to 28. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Llama 4 Scout gives you the larger context window at 10M, compared with 64K for Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1.
Pick Llama 4 Scout if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Llama 4 Scout
38.7
Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1
71.4
Llama 4 Scout
20.7
Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1
54.8
Llama 4 Scout is ahead overall, 42 to 28. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU, where the scores are 47 and 71.4.
Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.4 versus 38.7. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 54.8 versus 20.7. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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