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Claude Opus 5.5 vs Mixtral 8x7B Instruct

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Winner summary

Claude Opus 5.5 wins 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge.

Category leads
knowledge·Claude Opus 5.5
Hype vs Reality
Claude Opus 5.5
#3 by perf·#9 by attention
DESERVED
Mixtral 8x7B Instruct
#58 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
15.6x better value than Claude Opus 5.5
Claude Opus 5.5
6.9 pts/$
$12.00/M
Mixtral 8x7B Instruct
107.0 pts/$
$0.54/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Mistral AI logo
Mistral AI
$14.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Claude Opus 5.5Mixtral 8x7B Instruct
GPQA diamond
Claude Opus 5.5 leads by +80.0
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Claude Opus 5.5
87.5
Mixtral 8x7B Instruct
7.5
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Mixtral 8x7B Instruct
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
87.57.5
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude Opus 5.5$4.00$20.001.0M tokens (~500 books)$80.00
Mistral AI logoMixtral 8x7B Instruct$0.54$0.5433K tokens (~16 books)$5.40