Model comparison

Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat vs Mistral Small 3

Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat and Mistral Small 3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.2 vs 30.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat NVIDIA

31.2

Rank #265 Confirmed

Mistral Small 3 Mistral AI

30.9

Rank #268 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Small 3 in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat leads 28.8 to 15.3.

Side by side

Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat and Mistral Small 3 specifications
Llama2 70b Steerlm ChatMistral Small 3
ProviderNVIDIAMistral AI
Noometry Index31.230.9
Released—2025-01-30
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—33K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.05
Output $ / M tokens—$0.08
Results tracked924

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Category by category

Coding Mistral Small 3 leads

Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 29.3 (#295), Mistral Small 3: 36.0 (#203)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama2 70b Steerlm ChatMistral Small 3
LMArena Coding10251246
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.3%
BigCodeBench Complete—50.4%

Reasoning Too close to call

Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 19.1 (#245), Mistral Small 3: 18.2 (#269)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama2 70b Steerlm ChatMistral Small 3
LMArena Hard Prompts10471233
Chess Puzzles—0%
Epoch Capabilities Index—127.06

Math Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat leads

Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 28.8 (#223), Mistral Small 3: 15.3 (#290)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama2 70b Steerlm ChatMistral Small 3
LMArena Math10721240
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—6.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: —, Mistral Small 3: 25.0 (#258)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama2 70b Steerlm ChatMistral Small 3
GPQA Diamond—47.3%
Confabulations—25.2%
LMArena Expert—1202

Multilingual Mistral Small 3 leads

Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 28.9 (#265), Mistral Small 3: 37.5 (#231)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama2 70b Steerlm ChatMistral Small 3
LMArena Non-English10641198
LMArena Chinese—1204
LMArena French—1202
LMArena German—1211
LMArena Japanese—1111
LMArena Korean—1188
LMArena Russian—1216

Instruction Following Mistral Small 3 leads

Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 54.5 (#274), Mistral Small 3: 63.9 (#224)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama2 70b Steerlm ChatMistral Small 3
LMArena Instruction Following10611214

Long Context Mistral Small 3 leads

Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 30.4 (#283), Mistral Small 3: 37.8 (#206)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama2 70b Steerlm ChatMistral Small 3
LMArena Longer Query9981246

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 31.8 (#278), Mistral Small 3: 32.4 (#275)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama2 70b Steerlm ChatMistral Small 3
LMArena Text10981234
LMArena Creative Writing10911195
LMArena Multi-Turn10581217
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—707

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat better than Mistral Small 3?

Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat and Mistral Small 3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.2 vs 30.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat or Mistral Small 3 better for coding?

Mistral Small 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.0 versus 29.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat and Mistral Small 3 share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat has 9 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3 has 24.

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