Model comparison

Llama 3-70B vs Mistral Nemo

Llama 3-70B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.8 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Mistral Nemo Mistral AI

26.4

Rank #337 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3-70B scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Nemo in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Llama 3-70B leads 42.8 to 28.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 22.6% for Llama 3-70B and 10.8% for Mistral Nemo.

Side by side

Llama 3-70B and Mistral Nemo specifications
Llama 3-70BMistral Nemo
ProviderMetaMistral AI
Noometry Index28.826.4
Released2024-04-182024-07-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.15
Output $ / M tokens—$0.15
Results tracked3110

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218), Mistral Nemo: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BMistral Nemo
BigCodeBench Instruct43.6%—
LMArena Coding1206—
BigCodeBench Complete54.5%—
HumanEval+72%—
MBPP+69%—

Agentic & Tool Use Mistral Nemo leads

Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139), Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BMistral Nemo
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—27.6%
Cybench5%—
BALROG—17.6%

Reasoning Mistral Nemo leads

Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288), Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BMistral Nemo
DTBench54.2%48.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index122.93118.68
Kagi LLM Benchmark35.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1195—
ForecastBench57.1—
PIQA—83.5%
WinoGrande83.5%—

Math Mistral Nemo leads

Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305), Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BMistral Nemo
MATH Level 522.6%10.8%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.3%—
LMArena Math1218—
GSM8K—84.2%

Knowledge Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277), Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BMistral Nemo
GPQA Diamond40.6%29.9%
LMArena Expert1149—
BoolQ—82.5%
MMLU79.3%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251), Mistral Nemo: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BMistral Nemo
LMArena Non-English1142—
LMArena Chinese1114—
LMArena French1232—
LMArena German1169—
LMArena Japanese1017—
LMArena Korean1017—
LMArena Russian1159—
LMArena Spanish1241—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238), Mistral Nemo: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BMistral Nemo
LMArena Instruction Following1194—

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240), Mistral Nemo: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BMistral Nemo
LMArena Longer Query1174—

Writing & Preference Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231), Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BMistral Nemo
LMArena Text1221—
LMArena Creative Writing1210—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—881
LMArena Multi-Turn1223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 3-70B better than Mistral Nemo?

Llama 3-70B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.8 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index.

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

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3-70B has 31 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Nemo has 10.

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