Claude Opus 4.1 vs Mixtral 8×7B
Anthropic Claude Opus 4.1 | Mistral Mixtral 8×7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | Mistral |
| Release date | Aug 5 2025 | Dec 8 2023 |
| Access | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Benchmarks | ||
Nonsense detection BullshitBench v2Given a confidently-worded but nonsensical prompt, does the AI spot that it makes no sense and push back — instead of playing along and inventing an answer? The score is how often it clearly called out the nonsense. Higher is better. | 43% | — |
Coding SWE-Bench VerifiedReal coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | 74.5% | — |
Science GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | 80.9% | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Mixtral 8×7B shipped 606 days before Claude Opus 4.1 | |
Which is better: Claude Opus 4.1 or Mixtral 8×7B?
Claude Opus 4.1 and Mixtral 8×7B don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Mixtral 8×7B shipped 606 days before Claude Opus 4.1, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Claude Opus 4.1 is proprietary, while Mixtral 8×7B is open weight.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude Opus 4.1 and Mixtral 8×7B don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.
Frequently asked questions
Claude Opus 4.1 was released by Anthropic on Aug 5 2025.
Mixtral 8×7B was released by Mistral on Dec 8 2023.
Claude Opus 4.1 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic. Mixtral 8×7B is an open weight model released by Mistral.
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