Model comparison
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct vs Mistral 7B
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIA
Mistral AISummary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads 35.5 to 8.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 48.2% for Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct and 27.3% for Mistral 7B.
Side by side
| Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | Mistral 7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | NVIDIA | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 37.6 | 23.0 |
| Released | 2024-12-18 | 2023-09-27 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 8K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Results tracked | 14 | 37 |
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Category by category
Coding Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 35.9 (#216), Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 38.7% | 19.5% |
| LMArena Coding | 1272 | 1082 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 48.2% | 27.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 36% |
| MBPP+ | — | 42.1% |
Reasoning Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 25.0 (#152), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1266 | 1067 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 42.5% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 47.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 56.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 112.21 |
| HellaSwag | — | 81% |
| PIQA | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.3% |
Math Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 35.5 (#182), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1271 | 1085 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 0.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 3.7% |
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |
Knowledge Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 34.1 (#199), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1242 | 1036 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 15.2% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 87.4% |
| MMLU | — | 62.5% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 79.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 75.2% |
Multilingual Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 40.5 (#217), Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1245 | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1263 | 1009 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1018 |
| LMArena French | — | 1037 |
| LMArena German | — | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 878 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1026 |
Instruction Following Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 65.9 (#213), Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1252 | 1060 |
Long Context Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#215), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1238 | 1060 |
Writing & Preference Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 48.4 (#203), Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1283 | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1269 | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1062 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct better than Mistral 7B?
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct or Mistral 7B better for coding?
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct and Mistral 7B share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.