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Model comparison

Llama 3-70B vs Mistral Large 3

Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Mistral Large 3 Mistral AI

39.1

Rank #176 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3-70B scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Large 3 in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Mistral Large 3 leads 38.7 to 12.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 35.1% for Llama 3-70B and 50.9% for Mistral Large 3.

Side by side

Llama 3-70BMistral Large 3
ProviderMetaMistral AI
Noometry Index28.839.1
Released2024-04-182025-12-02
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$0.75
Results tracked3124

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Category by category

Coding Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218), Mistral Large 3: 34.4 (#237)

BenchmarkLlama 3-70BMistral Large 3
LMArena Coding12061448
LMArena WebDev—1230
BigCodeBench Instruct43.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete54.5%—
HumanEval+72%—
MBPP+69%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139), Mistral Large 3: —

BenchmarkLlama 3-70BMistral Large 3
Cybench5%—

Reasoning Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288), Mistral Large 3: 15.2 (#319)

BenchmarkLlama 3-70BMistral Large 3
Kagi LLM Benchmark35.1%50.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts11951429
NYT Connections (extended)—7.5%
Thematic Generalization—23%
DTBench54.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index122.93—
ForecastBench57.1—
WinoGrande83.5%—

Math Mistral Large 3 leads

Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305), Mistral Large 3: 38.7 (#129)

BenchmarkLlama 3-70BMistral Large 3
LMArena Math12181414
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.3%—
MATH Level 522.6%—

Knowledge Mistral Large 3 leads

Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277), Mistral Large 3: 36.0 (#177)

BenchmarkLlama 3-70BMistral Large 3
LMArena Expert11491421
GPQA Diamond40.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—14.5%
MMLU79.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 3-70B: —, Mistral Large 3: 38.2 (#66)

BenchmarkLlama 3-70BMistral Large 3
LMArena Vision—1221

Multilingual Mistral Large 3 leads

Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251), Mistral Large 3: 52.5 (#84)

BenchmarkLlama 3-70BMistral Large 3
LMArena Non-English11421413
LMArena Chinese11141447
LMArena French12321455
LMArena German11691437
LMArena Japanese10171394
LMArena Korean10171384
LMArena Russian11591411
LMArena Spanish12411440

Instruction Following Mistral Large 3 leads

Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238), Mistral Large 3: 74.0 (#108)

BenchmarkLlama 3-70BMistral Large 3
LMArena Instruction Following11941403

Long Context Mistral Large 3 leads

Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240), Mistral Large 3: 43.1 (#105)

BenchmarkLlama 3-70BMistral Large 3
LMArena Longer Query11741413

Writing & Preference Mistral Large 3 leads

Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231), Mistral Large 3: 60.0 (#101)

BenchmarkLlama 3-70BMistral Large 3
LMArena Text12211428
LMArena Creative Writing12101386
LMArena Multi-Turn12231429
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1412

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 3-70B better than Mistral Large 3?

Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 3-70B or Mistral Large 3 better for coding?

Llama 3-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 3-70B and Mistral Large 3 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3-70B has 31 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large 3 has 24.

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