# Llama 13b vs Mistral 7B

> Llama 13b is the stronger model overall, scoring 24.4 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-13b-vs-mistral-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 19

## Summary

- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 13b scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral 7B in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Llama 13b leads 26.7 to 8.1.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 13b | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 24.4 | 23.0 |
| Rank | 348 | 351 |
| Context | — | 8K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Llama 13b: 21.4 (#337)
- Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 683 | 1082 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 19.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 36% |
| MBPP+ | — | 42.1% |

## Reasoning

- Llama 13b: 14.0 (#329)
- Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 728 | 1067 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.9% | 56.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 100.58 | 112.21 |
| HellaSwag | 79.2% | 81% |
| PIQA | 80.1% | 83% |
| WinoGrande | 73% | 75.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 42.5% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 47.1% |
| LAMBADA | 75.2% | — |

## Math

- Llama 13b: 26.7 (#256)
- Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 838 | 1085 |
| GSM8K | 20.6% | 54.4% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 0.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 3.7% |

## Knowledge

- Llama 13b: —
- Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 52.7% | 78.6% |
| BoolQ | 78.7% | 87.4% |
| MMLU | 47.7% | 62.5% |
| OpenBookQA | 56.4% | 79.8% |
| TriviaQA | 77.9% | 75.2% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 15.2% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1036 |

## Multimodal

- Llama 13b: —
- Mistral 7B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| ScienceQA | 43.3% | — |

## Multilingual

- Llama 13b: 16.6 (#297)
- Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 819 | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1009 |
| LMArena French | — | 1037 |
| LMArena German | — | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 878 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1018 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1026 |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 13b: 36.7 (#305)
- Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 781 | 1060 |

## Long Context

- Llama 13b: —
- Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1060 |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 13b: 13.8 (#312)
- Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 834 | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 794 | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 753 | 1062 |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 13b better than Mistral 7B?

Llama 13b is the stronger model overall, scoring 24.4 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Llama 13b or Mistral 7B better for coding?

Mistral 7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 26.4 versus 21.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 13b and Mistral 7B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 13b has 21 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.