Model comparison

Llama 2-70B vs Magistral Small

Magistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.2 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.4

Rank #349 Confirmed

Magistral Small Mistral AI

30.2

Rank #296 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-70B scores higher in 1 category and Magistral Small in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Magistral Small leads 30.9 to 7.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 0% for Llama 2-70B and 30% for Magistral Small.

Side by side

Llama 2-70B and Magistral Small specifications
Llama 2-70BMagistral Small
ProviderMetaMistral AI
Noometry Index24.430.2
Released2023-07-182025-06-10
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—40K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$1.50
Results tracked3510

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Category by category

Coding Magistral Small leads

Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286), Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BMagistral Small
SciCode—35.2%
LMArena Coding1079—

Reasoning Llama 2-70B leads

Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325), Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BMagistral Small
DTBench41.6%61.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index113.79133.19
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—6.3%
ARC-AGI-1—5%
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—3%
LMArena Hard Prompts1073—
BIG-Bench Hard64.9%—
CommonsenseQA 2.050%—
ForecastBench51.4—
HellaSwag85.3%—
LAMBADA78.9%—
PIQA82.8%—
WinoGrande80.2%—

Math Magistral Small leads

Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326), Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BMagistral Small
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250%30%
LMArena Math1091—
MATH Level 53.3%—
GSM8K69.6%—

Knowledge Magistral Small leads

Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310), Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BMagistral Small
GPQA Diamond26.3%56.1%
LMArena Expert1039—
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.3%—
BoolQ88.6%—
MMLU69.9%—
OpenBookQA60.2%—
TriviaQA87.6%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274), Magistral Small: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BMagistral Small
LMArena Non-English1045—
LMArena Chinese995—
LMArena French1090—
LMArena German1041—
LMArena Japanese927—
LMArena Korean964—
LMArena Russian1083—
LMArena Spanish1143—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278), Magistral Small: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BMagistral Small
LMArena Instruction Following1071—

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270), Magistral Small: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BMagistral Small
LMArena Longer Query1062—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279), Magistral Small: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BMagistral Small
LMArena Text1115—
LMArena Creative Writing1075—
LMArena Multi-Turn1088—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-70B better than Magistral Small?

Magistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.2 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 2-70B or Magistral Small better for coding?

Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-70B and Magistral Small share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-70B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Small has 10.

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