Model comparison

Llama 2-70B vs Mistral Medium

Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.4

Rank #349 Confirmed

Mistral Medium Mistral AI

36.3

Rank #218 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-70B scores higher in 0 categories and Mistral Medium in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium leads 60.0 to 32.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 3.3% for Llama 2-70B and 81.6% for Mistral Medium.

Side by side

Llama 2-70B and Mistral Medium specifications
Llama 2-70BMistral Medium
ProviderMetaMistral AI
Noometry Index24.436.3
Released2023-07-182023-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.50
Output $ / M tokens—$7.50
Results tracked3536

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Category by category

Coding Mistral Medium leads

Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286), Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BMistral Medium
LMArena Coding10791434
FrontierCode—8%
SciCode—40.2%
WeirdML—43.7%
ALE-Bench—763.98

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 2-70B: —, Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BMistral Medium
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.7%

Reasoning Mistral Medium leads

Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325), Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BMistral Medium
LMArena Hard Prompts10731426
DTBench41.6%75.5%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—50%
CritPt—0%
LMCA—26.1%
Surface Evolver Bench—26.9%
BIG-Bench Hard64.9%—
CommonsenseQA 2.050%—
Epoch Capabilities Index113.79—
ForecastBench51.4—
HellaSwag85.3%—
LAMBADA78.9%—
PIQA82.8%—
WinoGrande80.2%—

Math Mistral Medium leads

Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326), Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BMistral Medium
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250%32.2%
LMArena Math10911408
MATH Level 53.3%81.6%
ProofBench—9%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.3%
GSM8K69.6%—

Knowledge Mistral Medium leads

Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310), Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BMistral Medium
GPQA Diamond26.3%59.5%
LMArena Expert10391408
Humanity's Last Exam—4.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—22.7%
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.3%—
BoolQ88.6%—
MMLU69.9%—
OpenBookQA60.2%—
TriviaQA87.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 2-70B: —, Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BMistral Medium
LMArena Vision—1172

Multilingual Mistral Medium leads

Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274), Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BMistral Medium
LMArena Non-English10451408
LMArena Chinese9951447
LMArena French10901459
LMArena German10411432
LMArena Japanese9271378
LMArena Korean9641380
LMArena Russian10831411
LMArena Spanish11431433

Instruction Following Mistral Medium leads

Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278), Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BMistral Medium
LMArena Instruction Following10711398

Long Context Mistral Medium leads

Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270), Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BMistral Medium
LMArena Longer Query10621406

Writing & Preference Mistral Medium leads

Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279), Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BMistral Medium
LMArena Text11151424
LMArena Creative Writing10751391
LMArena Multi-Turn10881418
Short-Story Creative Writing—77.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-70B better than Mistral Medium?

Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 2-70B or Mistral Medium better for coding?

Mistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.2 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-70B and Mistral Medium share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-70B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.

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