# Llama 13b vs Mistral Medium 3.5

> Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 23.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-13b-vs-mistral-medium-3-5
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 9

## Summary

- They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 13b scores higher in 0 categories and Mistral Medium 3.5 in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium 3.5 leads 58.6 to 13.9.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 13b | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 23.9 | 39.6 |
| Rank | 344 | 151 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | — | $7.50 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Llama 13b: 20.9 (#332)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 35.7 (#208)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 683 | 1461 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1263 |

## Reasoning

- Llama 13b: 13.4 (#327)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 16.6 (#290)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 728 | 1436 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 100.09 | 141.42 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 41.4% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 12.9% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.9% | — |
| HellaSwag | 79.2% | — |
| LAMBADA | 75.2% | — |
| PIQA | 80.1% | — |
| WinoGrande | 73% | — |

## Math

- Llama 13b: 24.4 (#259)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.4 (#113)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 838 | 1432 |
| GSM8K | 20.6% | — |

## Knowledge

- Llama 13b: —
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.3 (#123)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1431 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 52.7% | — |
| BoolQ | 78.7% | — |
| MMLU | 47.7% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 77.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Llama 13b: —
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 37.6 (#64)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1222 |
| ScienceQA | 43.3% | — |

## Multilingual

- Llama 13b: 16.8 (#292)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 52.1 (#93)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 819 | 1405 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1443 |
| LMArena French | — | 1448 |
| LMArena German | — | 1453 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1387 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1396 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1406 |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 13b: 36.9 (#300)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.7 (#87)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 781 | 1414 |

## Long Context

- Llama 13b: —
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#101)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1414 |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 13b: 13.9 (#307)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.6 (#113)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 834 | 1421 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 794 | 1372 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 753 | 1423 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 993 |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 13b better than Mistral Medium 3.5?

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 23.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Llama 13b or Mistral Medium 3.5 better for coding?

Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.7 versus 20.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 13b and Mistral Medium 3.5 share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 13b has 21 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22.