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Claude Opus 4.5 vs Mixtral 8×7B

2 vs 0 benchmarks won

Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.5
Mistral
Mixtral 8×7B
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMistral
Release dateNov 24 2025Dec 9 2023
Model type
Open sourceNoYes
Specifications
Parameters
Context window
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
87%
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
80.9%
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapMixtral 8×7B shipped 716 days before Claude Opus 4.5

Which is better: Claude Opus 4.5 or Mixtral 8×7B?

Claude Opus 4.5 leads Mixtral 8×7B on 2 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). Mixtral 8×7B shipped 716 days before Claude Opus 4.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Mixtral 8×7B is an open-source / open-weight model; Claude Opus 4.5 is proprietary.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.

Frequently asked questions

When was Claude Opus 4.5 released?
Claude Opus 4.5 was released by Anthropic on Nov 24 2025.
When was Mixtral 8×7B released?
Mixtral 8×7B was released by Mistral on Dec 9 2023.
Is Claude Opus 4.5 or Mixtral 8×7B open source?
Mixtral 8×7B is an open-source / open-weight model released by Mistral. Claude Opus 4.5 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic.

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