Model comparison
Codellama 70b Instruct vs Mistral Large 3
Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Large 3 in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Mistral Large 3 leads 52.5 to 24.8.
Side by side
| Codellama 70b Instruct | Mistral Large 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 39.1 |
| Released | — | 2025-12-02 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.75 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 24 |
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Category by category
Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Mistral Large 3: 34.4 (#237)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1230 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 40.7% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1448 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 49.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 65.9% | — |
Reasoning Codellama 70b Instruct leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Mistral Large 3: 15.2 (#319)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1052 | 1429 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 50.9% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 7.5% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 23% |
Math Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Mistral Large 3: 38.7 (#129)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1414 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Mistral Large 3: 36.0 (#177)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 14.5% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1421 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Mistral Large 3: 38.2 (#66)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1221 |
Multilingual Mistral Large 3 leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Mistral Large 3: 52.5 (#84)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 992 | 1413 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1447 |
| LMArena French | — | 1455 |
| LMArena German | — | 1437 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1394 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1384 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1411 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1440 |
Instruction Following Mistral Large 3 leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Mistral Large 3: 74.0 (#108)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1024 | 1403 |
Long Context Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Mistral Large 3: 43.1 (#105)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1413 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Large 3 leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Mistral Large 3: 60.0 (#101)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1057 | 1428 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1386 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1412 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1429 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Mistral Large 3?
Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Mistral Large 3 better for coding?
Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Mistral Large 3 share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large 3 has 24.