Model comparison
Llama 2-70B vs Mistral Small 3.2
Mistral Small 3.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.2 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
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Mistral AISummary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-70B scores higher in 0 categories and Mistral Small 3.2 in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Mistral Small 3.2 leads 26.7 to 7.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 0% for Llama 2-70B and 30.3% for Mistral Small 3.2.
Side by side
| Llama 2-70B | Mistral Small 3.2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 24.4 | 31.2 |
| Released | 2023-07-18 | 2025-06-20 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 256K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.0938 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Results tracked | 35 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1079 | — |
Reasoning Mistral Small 3.2 leads
Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325), Mistral Small 3.2: 18.1 (#287)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 113.79 | 131.74 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 40.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1073 | — |
| DTBench | 41.6% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 64.9% | — |
| CommonsenseQA 2.0 | 50% | — |
| ForecastBench | 51.4 | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 78.9% | — |
| PIQA | 82.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | 80.2% | — |
Math Mistral Small 3.2 leads
Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.3 (#260)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0% | 30.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1091 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 3.3% | — |
| GSM8K | 69.6% | — |
Knowledge Mistral Small 3.2 leads
Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.7 (#256)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 26.3% | 49.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1039 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 88.6% | — |
| MMLU | 69.9% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 60.2% | — |
| TriviaQA | 87.6% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1045 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 995 | — |
| LMArena French | 1090 | — |
| LMArena German | 1041 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 927 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 964 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1083 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1143 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1071 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1062 | — |
Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3.2 leads
Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279), Mistral Small 3.2: 45.0 (#224)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1115 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1075 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1255 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1088 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 2-70B better than Mistral Small 3.2?
Mistral Small 3.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.2 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Llama 2-70B and Mistral Small 3.2 share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-70B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.