Model comparison
Llama 2-13B vs Magistral Small
Llama 2-13B and Magistral Small score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.6 vs 30.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
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Mistral AISummary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-13B scores higher in 2 categories and Magistral Small in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Magistral Small leads 38.4 to 30.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 42.2% for Llama 2-13B and 61.3% for Magistral Small.
Side by side
| Llama 2-13B | Magistral Small | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.6 | 30.2 |
| Released | 2023-07-18 | 2025-06-10 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 40K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.50 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Small leads
Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291), Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 35.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1062 | — |
Reasoning Llama 2-13B leads
Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337), Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | 3% |
| DTBench | 42.2% | 61.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 106.17 | 133.19 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 6.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 5% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1051 | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 58.2% | — |
| HellaSwag | 80.7% | — |
| LAMBADA | 76.5% | — |
| PIQA | 80.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | 72.8% | — |
Math Llama 2-13B leads
Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229), Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 30% |
| LMArena Math | 1065 | — |
| GSM8K | 36.9% | — |
Knowledge Magistral Small leads
Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249), Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1030 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 60.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 82.4% | — |
| MMLU | 55.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 57% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.6% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Llama 2-13B: —, Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| ScienceQA | 55.8% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1024 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1001 | — |
| LMArena French | 1044 | — |
| LMArena German | 1009 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 894 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 953 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1055 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1087 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1045 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1064 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1084 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1047 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1050 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 2-13B better than Magistral Small?
Llama 2-13B and Magistral Small score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.6 vs 30.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Llama 2-13B or Magistral Small better for coding?
Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 30.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Llama 2-13B and Magistral Small share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-13B has 32 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Small has 10.