Model comparison

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct vs Mistral Nemo

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.6 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct Meta

30.6

Rank #291 Confirmed

Mistral Nemo Mistral AI

26.4

Rank #337 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral Nemo in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads 47.6 to 28.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 41.6% for Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct and 10.8% for Mistral Nemo.
  • Both cost about the same: $0.10 input and $0.32 output per million tokens.

Side by side

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct and Mistral Nemo specifications
Llama-3.3-70B-InstructMistral Nemo
ProviderMetaMistral AI
Noometry Index30.626.4
Released2024-12-062024-07-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K128K
Max output4K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.10$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$0.32$0.15
Results tracked4310

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 31.0 (#290), Mistral Nemo: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructMistral Nemo
SciCode26%—
WeirdML14.4%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.9%—
LiveBench Coding36.6%—
LMArena Coding1268—
BigCodeBench Complete57.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 25.8 (#105), Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructMistral Nemo
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard31.9%27.6%
BALROG23%17.6%

Reasoning Mistral Nemo leads

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 14.1 (#327), Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructMistral Nemo
DTBench59.5%48.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index127.33118.68
SimpleBench19.9%—
CritPt0%—
LiveBench Reasoning50.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1257—
LiveBench Data Analysis49.5%—
LMCA17.5%—
ForecastBench58.6—
LiveBench50.2%—
PIQA—83.5%

Math Mistral Nemo leads

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 15.3 (#298), Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructMistral Nemo
MATH Level 541.6%10.8%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20255.1%—
LiveBench Math42.2%—
LMArena Math1267—
GSM8K—84.2%

Knowledge Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.6 (#226), Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructMistral Nemo
GPQA Diamond47.4%29.9%
Confabulations22.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate4.1%—
LMArena Expert1225—
BoolQ—82.5%
MMLU86.3%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 39.9 (#220), Mistral Nemo: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructMistral Nemo
LMArena Non-English1236—
LMArena Chinese1217—
LMArena French1281—
LMArena German1251—
LMArena Japanese1150—
LMArena Korean1143—
LMArena Russian1252—
LMArena Spanish1270—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 71.1 (#157), Mistral Nemo: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructMistral Nemo
LiveBench Instruction Following82.7%—
LMArena Instruction Following1242—

Long Context Not comparable

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 26.4 (#295), Mistral Nemo: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructMistral Nemo
Fiction.LiveBench33.3%—
LMArena Longer Query1256—

Writing & Preference Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 47.6 (#207), Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-InstructMistral Nemo
LMArena Text1274—
LMArena Creative Writing1250—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—881
LMArena Multi-Turn1280—
LiveBench Language39.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct better than Mistral Nemo?

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.6 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct or Mistral Nemo?

Mistral Nemo is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct lists at $0.10 and $0.32.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 128K tokens.

How many benchmarks do Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct and Mistral Nemo share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has 43 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Nemo has 10.

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