# Llama 2-13B vs Ministral 3B

> Llama 2-13B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.6 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-2-13b-vs-ministral-3b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 2

## Summary

- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-13B scores higher in 2 categories and Ministral 3B in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 2-13B leads 28.1 to 10.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 42.2% for Llama 2-13B and 51.7% for Ministral 3B.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 2-13B | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.6 | 26.2 |
| Rank | 309 | 338 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.10 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.10 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1062 | — |

## Reasoning

- Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337)
- Ministral 3B: 18.4 (#282)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 42.2% | 51.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 106.17 | 118.1 |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1051 | — |
| LMCA | — | 5.5% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 58.2% | — |
| HellaSwag | 80.7% | — |
| LAMBADA | 76.5% | — |
| PIQA | 80.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | 72.8% | — |

## Math

- Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229)
- Ministral 3B: 26.6 (#258)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1065 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 14.4% |
| GSM8K | 36.9% | — |

## Knowledge

- Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249)
- Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#302)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 25.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1030 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 60.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 82.4% | — |
| MMLU | 55.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 57% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.6% | — |

## Multimodal

- Llama 2-13B: —
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| ScienceQA | 55.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1024 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1001 | — |
| LMArena French | 1044 | — |
| LMArena German | 1009 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 894 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 953 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1055 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1087 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1045 | — |

## Long Context

- Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1064 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1084 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1047 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1050 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 2-13B better than Ministral 3B?

Llama 2-13B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.6 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 2-13B and Ministral 3B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-13B has 32 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.
