Model comparison
Llama 2-70B vs Magistral Medium
Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
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Mistral AISummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-70B scores higher in 1 category and Magistral Medium in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Magistral Medium leads 35.1 to 8.1.
Side by side
| Llama 2-70B | Magistral Medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 24.4 | 35.2 |
| Released | 2023-07-18 | 2025-03-17 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $5 |
| Results tracked | 35 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Medium leads
Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286), Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1079 | 1319 |
| SciCode | — | 39.2% |
Reasoning Llama 2-70B leads
Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325), Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1073 | 1267 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 16.2% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 6.1% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| DTBench | 41.6% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 64.9% | — |
| CommonsenseQA 2.0 | 50% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 113.79 | — |
| ForecastBench | 51.4 | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 78.9% | — |
| PIQA | 82.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | 80.2% | — |
Math Magistral Medium leads
Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326), Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1091 | 1250 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 3.3% | — |
| GSM8K | 69.6% | — |
Knowledge Magistral Medium leads
Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310), Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1039 | 1223 |
| GPQA Diamond | 26.3% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 88.6% | — |
| MMLU | 69.9% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 60.2% | — |
| TriviaQA | 87.6% | — |
Multilingual Magistral Medium leads
Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274), Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1045 | 1232 |
| LMArena Chinese | 995 | 1227 |
| LMArena French | 1090 | 1267 |
| LMArena German | 1041 | 1248 |
| LMArena Japanese | 927 | 1175 |
| LMArena Korean | 964 | 1125 |
| LMArena Russian | 1083 | 1224 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1143 | 1271 |
Instruction Following Magistral Medium leads
Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278), Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1071 | 1254 |
Long Context Magistral Medium leads
Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270), Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1062 | 1295 |
Writing & Preference Magistral Medium leads
Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279), Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1115 | 1255 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1075 | 1245 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1088 | 1275 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 2-70B better than Magistral Medium?
Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Llama 2-70B or Magistral Medium better for coding?
Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Llama 2-70B and Magistral Medium share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-70B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.