Battle of the Models

Compare specific LLM models, context windows, and capabilities.

Mixtral 8x7B Instruct

A-TIER

Friendli AI

Intelligence Score 86/100

Model Popularity 0 votes

Context Window 32K

Pricing Model Commercial / Paid

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A-TIER

Hugging Face Inference

Intelligence Score 80/100

Context Window 8k

Pricing Model Free / Open

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FINAL VERDICT

With an intelligence score of 86/100 vs 80/100, Mixtral 8x7B Instruct outperforms Gemma 2 9B Instruct by 6 points.

HEAD-TO-HEAD

Feature	Mixtral 8x7B Instruct	Gemma 2 9B Instruct
Context Window	32K	8k
Architecture	Mixture of Experts (MoE)	Transformer
Est. MMLU Score	~80-84%	~75-79%
Release Date	2024	2024
Pricing Model	Paid / Commercial	Free Tier
Rate Limit (RPM)	60 RPM	300 Requests / hour
Daily Limit	Credit-based	Dependent on global load
Capabilities	Multilingual	No specific data
Performance Tier	A-Tier (Excellent)	B-Tier (Strong)
Speed Estimate	⚡ Very Fast	Medium
Primary Use Case	General Purpose	General Purpose
Model Size	7B	9B
Limitations	$10 credit is one-time trial Billing required after credits Limited model selection	Rate limited to ~300 request/hour for free users Models larger than 10GB may not load Cold starts can occur
Key Strengths	Optimized inference engine (FriendliEngine) OpenAI-compatible API endpoints Enterprise-grade uptime	Serverless Inference Instant Model Loading Text Generation