Model comparison

Llama 3.2 90B vs Mistral 7B

Llama 3.2 90B is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.5 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 5 shared benchmarks.

Summary

They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3.2 90B scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 3.2 90B leads 21.7 to 7.4.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 39.4% for Llama 3.2 90B and 3.7% for Mistral 7B.

Side by side

Llama 3.2 90B and Mistral 7B specifications
	Llama 3.2 90B	Mistral 7B
Provider	Meta	Mistral AI
Noometry Index	27.5	23.0
Released	2024-09-24	2023-09-27
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	—	8K
Max output	—	8K
Input $ / M tokens	—	$0.25
Output $ / M tokens	—	$0.25
Results tracked	9	37

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: —, Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Llama 3.2 90B	Mistral 7B
BigCodeBench Instruct	—	19.5%
LMArena Coding	—	1082
BigCodeBench Complete	—	27.3%
HumanEval+	—	36%
MBPP+	—	42.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: 30.0 (#80), Mistral 7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Llama 3.2 90B	Mistral 7B
BALROG	27.3%	—

Reasoning Llama 3.2 90B leads

Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#217), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Llama 3.2 90B	Mistral 7B
Epoch Capabilities Index	125.5	112.21
Chess Puzzles	—	0%
EnigmaEval	0.4%	—
LMArena Hard Prompts	—	1067
DTBench	—	42.5%
Adversarial NLI	—	47.1%
BIG-Bench Hard	—	56.1%
HellaSwag	—	81%
PIQA	—	83%
WinoGrande	—	75.3%

Math Llama 3.2 90B leads

Llama 3.2 90B: 11.1 (#308), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Llama 3.2 90B	Mistral 7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	2.6%	0.3%
MATH Level 5	39.4%	3.7%
LMArena Math	—	1085
GSM8K	—	54.4%

Knowledge Llama 3.2 90B leads

Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#274), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Llama 3.2 90B	Mistral 7B
GPQA Diamond	41%	15.2%
MMLU	80.3%	62.5%
LMArena Expert	—	1036
ARC (AI2) Challenge	—	78.6%
BoolQ	—	87.4%
OpenBookQA	—	79.8%
TriviaQA	—	75.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: 25.4 (#124), Mistral 7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Llama 3.2 90B	Mistral 7B
LMArena Vision	1000	—
GeoBench	52%	—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: —, Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Llama 3.2 90B	Mistral 7B
LMArena Non-English	—	1012
LMArena Chinese	—	1009
LMArena French	—	1037
LMArena German	—	987
LMArena Japanese	—	878
LMArena Russian	—	1018
LMArena Spanish	—	1026

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: —, Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Llama 3.2 90B	Mistral 7B
LMArena Instruction Following	—	1060

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: —, Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Llama 3.2 90B	Mistral 7B
LMArena Longer Query	—	1060

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: —, Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Llama 3.2 90B	Mistral 7B
LMArena Text	—	1090
LMArena Creative Writing	—	1068
LMArena Multi-Turn	—	1062

Frequently asked questions

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