Model comparison

Llama 2-13B vs Mistral

Llama 2-13B and Mistral score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.6 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.6

Rank #309 Confirmed

Mistral Mistral AI

29.9

Rank #303 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-13B scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 2-13B leads 28.1 to 16.6.
  • Llama 2-13B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Llama 2-13B and Mistral specifications
Llama 2-13BMistral
ProviderMetaMistral AI
Noometry Index29.629.9
Released2023-07-18—
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3222

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Category by category

Coding Mistral leads

Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291), Mistral: 33.8 (#250)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BMistral
LMArena Coding10621162

Reasoning Mistral leads

Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337), Mistral: 22.2 (#200)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BMistral
LMArena Hard Prompts10511149
Chess Puzzles0%—
DTBench42.2%—
BIG-Bench Hard58.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index106.17—
HellaSwag80.7%—
LAMBADA76.5%—
PIQA80.8%—
WinoGrande72.8%—

Math Llama 2-13B leads

Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229), Mistral: 22.3 (#278)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BMistral
LMArena Math10651180
Omni-MATH—7.2%
GSM8K36.9%—

Knowledge Llama 2-13B leads

Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249), Mistral: 16.6 (#288)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BMistral
LMArena Expert10301125
MMLU-Pro—27.7%
GPQA (HELM)—30.3%
ARC (AI2) Challenge60.3%—
BoolQ82.4%—
MMLU55.6%—
OpenBookQA57%—
TriviaQA79.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 2-13B: —, Mistral: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BMistral
ScienceQA55.8%—

Multilingual Mistral leads

Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279), Mistral: 32.8 (#254)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BMistral
LMArena Non-English10241129
LMArena Chinese10011109
LMArena French10441180
LMArena German10091155
LMArena Japanese8941013
LMArena Korean9531032
LMArena Russian10551168
LMArena Spanish10871143

Instruction Following Too close to call

Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287), Mistral: 52.6 (#288)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BMistral
LMArena Instruction Following10451152
IFEval—56.8%

Long Context Mistral leads

Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269), Mistral: 35.0 (#245)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BMistral
LMArena Longer Query10641153

Writing & Preference Mistral leads

Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289), Mistral: 37.0 (#260)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BMistral
LMArena Text10841165
LMArena Creative Writing10471158
LMArena Multi-Turn10501147
WildBench—66%

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-13B better than Mistral?

Llama 2-13B and Mistral score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.6 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Llama 2-13B or Mistral better for coding?

Mistral scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 30.9 in the Noometry coding category.

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

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-13B has 32 scored results on Noometry and Mistral has 22.

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