Model comparison

Llama 2-70B vs Mistral Nemo

Mistral Nemo is the stronger model overall, scoring 26.4 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.4

Rank #349 Confirmed

Mistral Nemo Mistral AI

26.4

Rank #337 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-70B scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Nemo in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Mistral Nemo leads 25.5 to 8.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 3.3% for Llama 2-70B and 10.8% for Mistral Nemo.

Side by side

Llama 2-70B and Mistral Nemo specifications
Llama 2-70BMistral Nemo
ProviderMetaMistral AI
Noometry Index24.426.4
Released2023-07-182024-07-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.15
Output $ / M tokens—$0.15
Results tracked3510

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286), Mistral Nemo: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BMistral Nemo
LMArena Coding1079—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 2-70B: —, Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BMistral Nemo
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—27.6%
BALROG—17.6%

Reasoning Mistral Nemo leads

Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325), Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BMistral Nemo
DTBench41.6%48.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index113.79118.68
PIQA82.8%83.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts1073—
BIG-Bench Hard64.9%—
CommonsenseQA 2.050%—
ForecastBench51.4—
HellaSwag85.3%—
LAMBADA78.9%—
WinoGrande80.2%—

Math Mistral Nemo leads

Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326), Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BMistral Nemo
MATH Level 53.3%10.8%
GSM8K69.6%84.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250%—
LMArena Math1091—

Knowledge Mistral Nemo leads

Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310), Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BMistral Nemo
GPQA Diamond26.3%29.9%
BoolQ88.6%82.5%
LMArena Expert1039—
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.3%—
MMLU69.9%—
OpenBookQA60.2%—
TriviaQA87.6%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274), Mistral Nemo: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BMistral Nemo
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), Mistral Nemo: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BMistral Nemo
LMArena Instruction Following1071—

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270), Mistral Nemo: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BMistral Nemo
LMArena Longer Query1062—

Writing & Preference Llama 2-70B leads

Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279), Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-70BMistral Nemo
LMArena Text1115—
LMArena Creative Writing1075—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—881
LMArena Multi-Turn1088—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-70B better than Mistral Nemo?

Mistral Nemo is the stronger model overall, scoring 26.4 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

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

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-70B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Nemo has 10.

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