Model comparison
Llama 3-70B vs Mistral Small 3.1
Mistral Small 3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.7 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3-70B scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Small 3.1 in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Mistral Small 3.1 leads 41.2 to 33.6.
Side by side
| Llama 3-70B | Mistral Small 3.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 31.7 |
| Released | 2024-04-18 | 2025-03-17 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 102K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.35 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.56 |
| Results tracked | 31 | 28 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Small 3.1 leads
Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218), Mistral Small 3.1: 38.3 (#179)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1206 | 1309 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 54.5% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 72% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139), Mistral Small 3.1: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 5% | — |
Reasoning Mistral Small 3.1 leads
Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288), Mistral Small 3.1: 19.7 (#254)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1195 | 1278 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 122.93 | 127.48 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 35.1% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| DTBench | 54.2% | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.1 | — |
| WinoGrande | 83.5% | — |
Math Mistral Small 3.1 leads
Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305), Mistral Small 3.1: 14.7 (#301)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.3% | 3.9% |
| LMArena Math | 1218 | 1262 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 24.8% |
| MATH Level 5 | 22.6% | — |
Knowledge Mistral Small 3.1 leads
Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277), Mistral Small 3.1: 22.6 (#271)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | 41.9% |
| LMArena Expert | 1149 | 1257 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 61% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 39.2% |
| MMLU | 79.3% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Llama 3-70B: —, Mistral Small 3.1: 33.2 (#99)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1136 |
Multilingual Mistral Small 3.1 leads
Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251), Mistral Small 3.1: 41.2 (#209)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1142 | 1255 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1114 | 1253 |
| LMArena French | 1232 | 1273 |
| LMArena German | 1169 | 1266 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1017 | 1208 |
| LMArena Korean | 1017 | 1206 |
| LMArena Russian | 1159 | 1263 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1241 | 1283 |
Instruction Following Mistral Small 3.1 leads
Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238), Mistral Small 3.1: 63.6 (#230)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1194 | 1264 |
| IFEval | — | 75% |
Long Context Mistral Small 3.1 leads
Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240), Mistral Small 3.1: 39.5 (#178)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1174 | 1299 |
Writing & Preference Llama 3-70B leads
Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231), Mistral Small 3.1: 37.0 (#259)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1221 | 1277 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1210 | 1253 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1223 | 1270 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 761 |
| WildBench | — | 78.8% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 3-70B better than Mistral Small 3.1?
Mistral Small 3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.7 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.
Is Llama 3-70B or Mistral Small 3.1 better for coding?
Mistral Small 3.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.3 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Llama 3-70B and Mistral Small 3.1 share?
20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3-70B has 31 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.1 has 28.