Model comparison

Llama 2-34B vs Mistral Small

Mistral Small has enough public results to be ranked (#243); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-34B Meta

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Unranked

Mistral Small Mistral AI

33.4

Rank #243 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
  • Mistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Llama 2-34B and Mistral Small specifications
Llama 2-34BMistral Small
ProviderMetaMistral AI
Noometry Index—33.4
Released2023-07-182024-02-26
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—256K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.15
Output $ / M tokens—$0.60
Results tracked1039

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BMistral Small
SciCode—26.5%
BigCodeBench Instruct—36.1%
LiveBench Coding—36.2%
LMArena Coding—1362
BigCodeBench Complete—46.6%
ALE-Bench—497.62

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BMistral Small
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.1%

Reasoning Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BMistral Small
Kagi LLM Benchmark—37.8%
CritPt—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—44.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1335
DTBench—70.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis—53.7%
LMCA—20.6%
BIG-Bench Hard44.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index105.2—
LiveBench—44%
PIQA81.9%—
WinoGrande76.7%—

Math Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BMistral Small
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—5.8%
LiveBench Math—39.9%
LMArena Math—1341
MATH Level 5—46.8%
GSM8K42.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BMistral Small
MMLU62.6%68.7%
GPQA Diamond—47.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.1%
LMArena Expert—1291
ARC (AI2) Challenge54.5%—
BoolQ83.7%—
OpenBookQA58.2%—
TriviaQA84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BMistral Small
LMArena Vision—1142

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BMistral Small
LMArena Non-English—1315
LMArena Chinese—1340
LMArena French—1337
LMArena German—1340
LMArena Japanese—1275
LMArena Korean—1259
LMArena Russian—1324
LMArena Spanish—1346

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BMistral Small
LiveBench Instruction Following—63.7%
LMArena Instruction Following—1310

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BMistral Small
LMArena Longer Query—1327

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BMistral Small
LMArena Text—1338
LMArena Creative Writing—1305
LMArena Multi-Turn—1344
LiveBench Language—30.5%

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-34B better than Mistral Small?

Mistral Small has enough public results to be ranked (#243); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-34B and Mistral Small share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Llama 2-34B has 10 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small has 39.

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