Model comparison

Llama 2-34B vs Mistral Small 3.2

Mistral Small 3.2 has enough public results to be ranked (#280); 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 3.2 Mistral AI

31.2

Rank #280 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
  • Mistral Small 3.2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Llama 2-34B and Mistral Small 3.2 specifications
Llama 2-34BMistral Small 3.2
ProviderMetaMistral AI
Noometry Index—31.2
Released2023-07-182025-06-20
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—256K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.0938
Output $ / M tokens—$0.25
Results tracked106

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Category by category

Reasoning Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Mistral Small 3.2: 18.1 (#287)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BMistral Small 3.2
Epoch Capabilities Index105.2131.74
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.4%
Chess Puzzles—1%
BIG-Bench Hard44.1%—
PIQA81.9%—
WinoGrande76.7%—

Math Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Mistral Small 3.2: 26.3 (#260)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BMistral Small 3.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—30.3%
GSM8K42.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Mistral Small 3.2: 26.7 (#256)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BMistral Small 3.2
GPQA Diamond—49.1%
ARC (AI2) Challenge54.5%—
BoolQ83.7%—
MMLU62.6%—
OpenBookQA58.2%—
TriviaQA84.6%—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 2-34B: —, Mistral Small 3.2: 45.0 (#224)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-34BMistral Small 3.2
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1255

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-34B better than Mistral Small 3.2?

Mistral Small 3.2 has enough public results to be ranked (#280); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-34B and Mistral Small 3.2 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Llama 2-34B has 10 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.

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