Model comparison

Llama 2-13B vs Ministral 3B

Llama 2-13B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.1 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.1

Rank #304 Confirmed

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

25.6

Rank #336 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-13B scores higher in 2 categories and Ministral 3B in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 2-13B leads 27.5 to 10.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 42.2% for Llama 2-13B and 51.7% for Ministral 3B.

Side by side

Llama 2-13B and Ministral 3B specifications
Llama 2-13BMinistral 3B
ProviderMetaMistral AI
Noometry Index29.125.6
Released2023-07-182024-10-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.04
Output $ / M tokens—$0.04
Results tracked326

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Llama 2-13B: 30.4 (#287), Ministral 3B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BMinistral 3B
LMArena Coding1062—

Reasoning Ministral 3B leads

Llama 2-13B: 12.3 (#333), Ministral 3B: 17.7 (#278)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BMinistral 3B
DTBench42.2%51.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index105.8118.08
Chess Puzzles0%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1051—
LMCA—5.5%
BIG-Bench Hard58.2%—
HellaSwag80.7%—
LAMBADA76.5%—
PIQA80.8%—
WinoGrande72.8%—

Math Llama 2-13B leads

Llama 2-13B: 28.7 (#226), Ministral 3B: 24.5 (#257)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BMinistral 3B
LMArena Math1065—
MATH Level 5—14.4%
GSM8K36.9%—

Knowledge Llama 2-13B leads

Llama 2-13B: 27.5 (#244), Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#297)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BMinistral 3B
GPQA Diamond—25.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.3%
LMArena Expert1030—
ARC (AI2) Challenge60.3%—
BoolQ82.4%—
MMLU55.6%—
OpenBookQA57%—
TriviaQA79.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 2-13B: —, Ministral 3B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BMinistral 3B
ScienceQA55.8%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 2-13B: 26.7 (#274), Ministral 3B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BMinistral 3B
LMArena Non-English1024—
LMArena Chinese1001—
LMArena French1043—
LMArena German1009—
LMArena Japanese894—
LMArena Korean953—
LMArena Russian1055—
LMArena Spanish1086—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 2-13B: 53.5 (#282), Ministral 3B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BMinistral 3B
LMArena Instruction Following1046—

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#264), Ministral 3B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BMinistral 3B
LMArena Longer Query1064—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 2-13B: 30.0 (#284), Ministral 3B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BMinistral 3B
LMArena Text1085—
LMArena Creative Writing1047—
LMArena Multi-Turn1050—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-13B better than Ministral 3B?

Llama 2-13B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.1 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-13B and Ministral 3B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-13B has 32 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.

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