Model comparison
Llama 13b vs Mistral Small
Mistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.
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Mistral AISummary
- They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 13b scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Small in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Small leads 52.5 to 13.8.
Side by side
| Llama 13b | Mistral Small | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 24.4 | 33.4 |
| Released | 2023-02-24 | 2024-02-26 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 256K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.60 |
| Results tracked | 21 | 39 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Small leads
Llama 13b: 21.4 (#337), Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247)
| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 683 | 1362 |
| SciCode | — | 26.5% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 36.1% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 36.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.6% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 497.62 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Llama 13b: —, Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93)
| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.1% |
Reasoning Mistral Small leads
Llama 13b: 14.0 (#329), Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250)
| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 728 | 1335 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 37.8% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 44.8% |
| DTBench | — | 70.9% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 53.7% |
| LMCA | — | 20.6% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 100.58 | — |
| HellaSwag | 79.2% | — |
| LAMBADA | 75.2% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 44% |
| PIQA | 80.1% | — |
| WinoGrande | 73% | — |
Math Llama 13b leads
Llama 13b: 26.7 (#256), Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293)
| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 838 | 1341 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 5.8% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 39.9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 46.8% |
| GSM8K | 20.6% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Llama 13b: —, Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222)
| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 47.7% | 68.7% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1291 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 52.7% | — |
| BoolQ | 78.7% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 77.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Llama 13b: —, Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96)
| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1142 |
| ScienceQA | 43.3% | — |
Multilingual Mistral Small leads
Llama 13b: 16.6 (#297), Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169)
| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 819 | 1315 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1340 |
| LMArena French | — | 1337 |
| LMArena German | — | 1340 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1275 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1259 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1324 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1346 |
Instruction Following Mistral Small leads
Llama 13b: 36.7 (#305), Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209)
| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 781 | 1310 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 63.7% |
Long Context Not comparable
Llama 13b: —, Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156)
| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1327 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Small leads
Llama 13b: 13.8 (#312), Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171)
| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 834 | 1338 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 794 | 1305 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 753 | 1344 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 30.5% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 13b better than Mistral Small?
Mistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Llama 13b or Mistral Small better for coding?
Mistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 21.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Llama 13b and Mistral Small share?
9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 13b has 21 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small has 39.