# Llama 13b vs Mistral Medium

> Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-13b-vs-mistral-medium
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 8

## Summary

- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 13b scores higher in 0 categories and Mistral Medium in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium leads 60.0 to 13.8.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 13b | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 24.4 | 36.3 |
| Rank | 348 | 218 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | — | $7.50 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Llama 13b: 21.4 (#337)
- Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 683 | 1434 |
| FrontierCode | — | 8% |
| SciCode | — | 40.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.7% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 763.98 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Llama 13b: —
- Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.7% |

## Reasoning

- Llama 13b: 14.0 (#329)
- Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 728 | 1426 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 50% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 75.5% |
| LMCA | — | 26.1% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 26.9% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 100.58 | — |
| HellaSwag | 79.2% | — |
| LAMBADA | 75.2% | — |
| PIQA | 80.1% | — |
| WinoGrande | 73% | — |

## Math

- Llama 13b: 26.7 (#256)
- Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 838 | 1408 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 32.2% |
| ProofBench | — | 9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 81.6% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |
| GSM8K | 20.6% | — |

## Knowledge

- Llama 13b: —
- Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 59.5% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 4.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 22.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1408 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 52.7% | — |
| BoolQ | 78.7% | — |
| MMLU | 47.7% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 77.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Llama 13b: —
- Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1172 |
| ScienceQA | 43.3% | — |

## Multilingual

- Llama 13b: 16.6 (#297)
- Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 819 | 1408 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1447 |
| LMArena French | — | 1459 |
| LMArena German | — | 1432 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1378 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1380 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1411 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1433 |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 13b: 36.7 (#305)
- Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 781 | 1398 |

## Long Context

- Llama 13b: —
- Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1406 |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 13b: 13.8 (#312)
- Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)

| Benchmark | Llama 13b | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 834 | 1424 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 794 | 1391 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 753 | 1418 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 77.3% |

## FAQ

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

Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

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

Mistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.2 versus 21.4 in the Noometry coding category.

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

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 13b has 21 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.