# Llama 13b vs Ministral 8B

> Ministral 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.8 to 23.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-13b-vs-ministral-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 8

## Summary

- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 13b scores higher in 1 category and Ministral 8B in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Ministral 8B leads 39.8 to 13.9.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 13b | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 23.9 | 27.8 |
| Rank | 344 | 321 |
| Context | — | 128K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.10 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.10 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Llama 13b: 20.9 (#332)
- Ministral 8B: 34.4 (#226)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 683 | 1202 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Llama 13b: —
- Ministral 8B: 16.2 (#140)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 11.1% |

## Reasoning

- Llama 13b: 13.4 (#327)
- Ministral 8B: 17.7 (#279)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 728 | 1191 |
| DTBench | — | 45.7% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 100.09 | — |
| HellaSwag | 79.2% | — |
| LAMBADA | 75.2% | — |
| PIQA | 80.1% | — |
| WinoGrande | 73% | — |

## Math

- Llama 13b: 24.4 (#259)
- Ministral 8B: 23.7 (#262)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 838 | 1188 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 14.9% |
| GSM8K | 20.6% | — |

## Knowledge

- Llama 13b: —
- Ministral 8B: 12.5 (#292)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 27.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1170 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 52.7% | — |
| BoolQ | 78.7% | — |
| MMLU | 47.7% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 77.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Llama 13b: —
- Ministral 8B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| ScienceQA | 43.3% | — |

## Multilingual

- Llama 13b: 16.8 (#292)
- Ministral 8B: 35.3 (#242)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 819 | 1165 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1193 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1195 |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 13b: 36.9 (#300)
- Ministral 8B: 60.7 (#245)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 781 | 1161 |

## Long Context

- Llama 13b: —
- Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#222)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1212 |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 13b: 13.9 (#307)
- Ministral 8B: 39.8 (#241)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 834 | 1191 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 794 | 1175 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 753 | 1166 |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 13b better than Ministral 8B?

Ministral 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.8 to 23.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Llama 13b or Ministral 8B better for coding?

Ministral 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 20.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 13b and Ministral 8B share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 13b has 21 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.