# Llama 13b vs Mistral Large

> Mistral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.6 to 23.9 on the Noometry Index.

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

## Summary

- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 13b scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Large in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Mistral Large leads 68.1 to 36.9.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 13b | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 23.9 | 31.6 |
| Rank | 344 | 258 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $2 |
| Output $/M | — | $6 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Llama 13b: 20.9 (#332)
- Mistral Large: 33.8 (#240)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 683 | 1277 |
| SciCode | — | 36.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 30% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 47.1% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.3% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 264.7 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 62.2% |
| MBPP+ | — | 59.5% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Llama 13b: —
- Mistral Large: 28.4 (#83)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 38.4% |

## Reasoning

- Llama 13b: 13.4 (#327)
- Mistral Large: 15.4 (#305)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 728 | 1257 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 100.09 | 128.52 |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 43.5% |
| DTBench | — | 65.1% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 50.1% |
| LMCA | — | 16.7% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.9% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.1 |
| HellaSwag | 79.2% | — |
| LAMBADA | 75.2% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 48.4% |
| PIQA | 80.1% | — |
| WinoGrande | 73% | — |

## Math

- Llama 13b: 24.4 (#259)
- Mistral Large: 17.1 (#285)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 838 | 1262 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 8.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 28.1% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 42.5% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 50.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |
| GSM8K | 20.6% | — |

## Knowledge

- Llama 13b: —
- Mistral Large: 30.0 (#224)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 47.7% | 80% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 51.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 59.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 21.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 43.5% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1232 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 52.7% | — |
| BoolQ | 78.7% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 77.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Llama 13b: —
- Mistral Large: —

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| ScienceQA | 43.3% | — |

## Multilingual

- Llama 13b: 16.8 (#292)
- Mistral Large: 40.1 (#214)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 819 | 1237 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1240 |
| LMArena French | — | 1324 |
| LMArena German | — | 1254 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1187 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1202 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1257 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1268 |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 13b: 36.9 (#300)
- Mistral Large: 68.1 (#186)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 781 | 1249 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 67.9% |
| IFEval | — | 87.7% |

## Long Context

- Llama 13b: —
- Mistral Large: 38.3 (#194)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1262 |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 13b: 13.9 (#307)
- Mistral Large: 40.9 (#237)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 834 | 1266 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 794 | 1243 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 753 | 1260 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 69% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 985 |
| WildBench | — | 80.1% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 39.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 13b better than Mistral Large?

Mistral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.6 to 23.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Llama 13b or Mistral Large better for coding?

Mistral Large scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 20.9 in the Noometry coding category.

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

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 13b has 21 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large has 51.