Model comparison
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct vs Mistral Large
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIA
Mistral AISummary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct scores higher in 5 categories and Mistral Large in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct leads 34.6 to 18.2.
Side by side
| Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct | Mistral Large | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | NVIDIA | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 35.9 | 31.9 |
| Released | — | 2024-02-26 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $6 |
| Results tracked | 12 | 51 |
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Category by category
Coding Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct: 35.6 (#222), Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | 1277 |
| SciCode | — | 36.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 30% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 47.1% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.3% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 264.7 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 62.2% |
| MBPP+ | — | 59.5% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct: —, Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 38.4% |
Reasoning Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct: 23.5 (#177), Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1203 | 1257 |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 43.5% |
| DTBench | — | 65.1% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 50.1% |
| LMCA | — | 16.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 128.52 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.1 |
| LiveBench | — | 48.4% |
Math Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct: 34.6 (#193), Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1230 | 1262 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 8.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 28.1% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 42.5% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 50.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |
Knowledge Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct: 31.9 (#218), Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1167 | 1232 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 51.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 59.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 21.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 43.5% |
| MMLU | — | 80% |
Multilingual Mistral Large leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct: 36.1 (#241), Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1181 | 1237 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1180 | 1240 |
| LMArena Russian | 1187 | 1257 |
| LMArena French | — | 1325 |
| LMArena German | — | 1254 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1188 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1202 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1268 |
Instruction Following Mistral Large leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct: 62.9 (#233), Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1201 | 1249 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 67.9% |
| IFEval | — | 87.7% |
Long Context Mistral Large leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct: 36.5 (#230), Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1261 |
Writing & Preference Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct: 43.4 (#229), Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1228 | 1266 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1213 | 1243 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | 1260 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 69% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 985 |
| WildBench | — | 80.1% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 39.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct better than Mistral Large?
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct or Mistral Large better for coding?
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.6 versus 34.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct and Mistral Large share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct has 12 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large has 51.