Mistral: Mixtral 8x22B Instruct

Mistral's Mixtral 8x22B Instruct model, released on April 16, 2024, demonstrates a strong overall performance profile, particularly excelling in speed and reliability. It consistently performs among the fastest models, ranking in the 80th percentile across eight benchmarks. The model also offers competitive pricing, positioned at the 48th percentile. Notably, its reliability is exceptional, achieving a 100% success rate across all benchmarks, indicating minimal technical failures. In terms of specific benchmark performance, Mixtral 8x22B Instruct shows perfect accuracy in Hallucinations (Baseline), making it the most accurate model at its price point and speed. It exhibits strong capabilities in General Knowledge (95.5% accuracy), Ethics (95.0% accuracy), and Mathematics (86.0% accuracy). Its stated strengths in math, coding, and reasoning are largely supported, with Coding achieving 83.0% accuracy. However, the model shows weaknesses in Email Classification (80.0% accuracy) and particularly in Instruction Following (50.0% accuracy) and Reasoning (54.0% accuracy), where its performance falls below the 50th percentile. Its large context length of 65536 and fluency in multiple languages further enhance its utility.