Model comparison
Llama 3-70B vs Magistral Small
Magistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.2 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
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Mistral AISummary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3-70B scores higher in 1 category and Magistral Small in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Magistral Small leads 26.2 to 12.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 35.1% for Llama 3-70B and 6.3% for Magistral Small.
Side by side
| Llama 3-70B | Magistral Small | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 30.2 |
| Released | 2024-04-18 | 2025-06-10 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 40K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.50 |
| Results tracked | 31 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Small leads
Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218), Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 35.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.6% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1206 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 54.5% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 72% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 5% | — |
Reasoning Llama 3-70B leads
Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288), Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 35.1% | 6.3% |
| DTBench | 54.2% | 61.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 122.93 | 133.19 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 5% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1195 | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.1 | — |
| WinoGrande | 83.5% | — |
Math Magistral Small leads
Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305), Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.3% | 30% |
| LMArena Math | 1218 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 22.6% | — |
Knowledge Magistral Small leads
Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277), Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | 56.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1149 | — |
| MMLU | 79.3% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1142 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1114 | — |
| LMArena French | 1232 | — |
| LMArena German | 1169 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1017 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1017 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1159 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1241 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1194 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1174 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1221 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1210 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1223 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 3-70B better than Magistral Small?
Magistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.2 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.
Is Llama 3-70B or Magistral Small better for coding?
Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Llama 3-70B and Magistral Small share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3-70B has 31 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Small has 10.