Mistral 8x7B vs o1

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

Mistral 8x7B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 57 to 51. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

o1 is the reasoning model in the pair, while Mistral 8x7B is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. o1 gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 32K for Mistral 8x7B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Mistral 8x7B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. o1 only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you need the larger 200K context window.

Knowledge

o1

Mistral 8x7B

54

o1

83.8

65
MMLU
91.8
64
GPQA
75.7
62
SuperGPQA
-
60
OpenBookQA
-
65
MMLU-Pro
-
8
HLE
-

Coding

o1

Mistral 8x7B

35.3

o1

41

55
HumanEval
-
28
SWE-bench Verified
41
23
LiveCodeBench
-

Mathematics

o1

Mistral 8x7B

65.1

o1

74.3

65
AIME 2023
-
67
AIME 2024
74.3
66
AIME 2025
-
61
HMMT Feb 2023
-
63
HMMT Feb 2024
-
62
HMMT Feb 2025
-
64
BRUMO 2025
-
73
MATH-500
-

Reasoning

Mistral 8x7B
63
SimpleQA
-
61
MuSR
-
76
BBH
-

Instruction Following

o1

Mistral 8x7B

78

o1

92.2

78
IFEval
92.2

Multilingual

Mistral 8x7B
74
MGSM
-

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Mistral 8x7B or o1?

Mistral 8x7B is ahead overall, 57 to 51. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU, where the scores are 65 and 91.8.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Mistral 8x7B or o1?

o1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 83.8 versus 54. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Mistral 8x7B or o1?

o1 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41 versus 35.3. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Mistral 8x7B or o1?

o1 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 74.3 versus 65.1. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Mistral 8x7B or o1?

o1 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 92.2 versus 78. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 9, 2026

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