Model comparison

Llama 2-7B vs Ministral 3B

Llama 2-7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.1 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 11, 2026. 1 shared benchmarks.

Summary

They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Llama 2-7B scores higher in 2 categories and Ministral 3B in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 2-7B leads 28.2 to 10.4.

Side by side

Llama 2-7B and Ministral 3B specifications
	Llama 2-7B	Ministral 3B
Provider	Meta	Mistral AI
Noometry Index	29.1	26.2
Released	2023-07-18	2024-10-01
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	—	131K
Max output	—	262K
Input $ / M tokens	—	$0.10
Output $ / M tokens	—	$0.10
Results tracked	29	6

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Llama 2-7B: 29.2 (#307), Ministral 3B: —

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Llama 2-7B	Ministral 3B
LMArena Coding	1002	—

Reasoning Ministral 3B leads

Llama 2-7B: 15.7 (#312), Ministral 3B: 18.4 (#282)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Llama 2-7B	Ministral 3B
Epoch Capabilities Index	99.06	118.1
Chess Puzzles	0%	—
LMArena Hard Prompts	1009	—
DTBench	—	51.7%
LMCA	—	5.5%
BIG-Bench Hard	39.2%	—
HellaSwag	77.2%	—
LAMBADA	73.3%	—
PIQA	78.8%	—
WinoGrande	69.2%	—

Math Llama 2-7B leads

Llama 2-7B: 30.7 (#233), Ministral 3B: 26.6 (#258)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Llama 2-7B	Ministral 3B
LMArena Math	1042	—
MATH Level 5	—	14.4%
GSM8K	16.7%	—

Knowledge Llama 2-7B leads

Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#248), Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#302)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Llama 2-7B	Ministral 3B
GPQA Diamond	—	25.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	—	7.3%
LMArena Expert	1036	—
ARC (AI2) Challenge	45.9%	—
BoolQ	77.9%	—
MMLU	45.8%	—
OpenBookQA	58.6%	—
TriviaQA	73.7%	—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 2-7B: —, Ministral 3B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Llama 2-7B	Ministral 3B
ScienceQA	43.1%	—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 2-7B: 23.8 (#293), Ministral 3B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Llama 2-7B	Ministral 3B
LMArena Non-English	973	—
LMArena Chinese	973	—
LMArena French	970	—
LMArena German	978	—
LMArena Russian	995	—
LMArena Spanish	1007	—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 2-7B: 50.8 (#298), Ministral 3B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Llama 2-7B	Ministral 3B
LMArena Instruction Following	1006	—

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#287), Ministral 3B: —

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Llama 2-7B	Ministral 3B
LMArena Longer Query	999	—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 2-7B: 28.0 (#298), Ministral 3B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Llama 2-7B	Ministral 3B
LMArena Text	1053	—
LMArena Creative Writing	1033	—
LMArena Multi-Turn	1029	—

Frequently asked questions

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