Mistral 8x7B vs o1-pro

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

Mistral 8x7B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 57 to 33. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

o1-pro 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-pro 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-pro only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you need the larger 200K context window.

Knowledge

o1-pro

Mistral 8x7B

54

o1-pro

79

65
MMLU
-
64
GPQA
79
62
SuperGPQA
-
60
OpenBookQA
-
65
MMLU-Pro
-
8
HLE
-

Coding

Mistral 8x7B
55
HumanEval
-
28
SWE-bench Verified
-
23
LiveCodeBench
-

Mathematics

o1-pro

Mistral 8x7B

65.1

o1-pro

86

65
AIME 2023
-
67
AIME 2024
86
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

Mistral 8x7B
78
IFEval
-

Multilingual

Mistral 8x7B
74
MGSM
-

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Mistral 8x7B or o1-pro?

Mistral 8x7B is ahead overall, 57 to 33. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2024, where the scores are 67 and 86.

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

o1-pro has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 79 versus 54. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

o1-pro has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 65.1. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 9, 2026

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