# Llama 2-13B vs Ministral 8B

> Llama 2-13B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.6 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-2-13b-vs-ministral-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 13

## Summary

- They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-13B scores higher in 2 categories and Ministral 8B in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 2-13B leads 28.1 to 12.6.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 2-13B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.6 | 28.2 |
| Rank | 309 | 325 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291)
- Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1062 | 1202 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Llama 2-13B: —
- Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 11.1% |

## Reasoning

- Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337)
- Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1051 | 1191 |
| DTBench | 42.2% | 45.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 58.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 106.17 | — |
| HellaSwag | 80.7% | — |
| LAMBADA | 76.5% | — |
| PIQA | 80.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | 72.8% | — |

## Math

- Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229)
- Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1065 | 1188 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 14.9% |
| GSM8K | 36.9% | — |

## Knowledge

- Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249)
- Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1030 | 1170 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 27.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.4% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 60.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 82.4% | — |
| MMLU | 55.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 57% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.6% | — |

## Multimodal

- Llama 2-13B: —
- Ministral 8B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| ScienceQA | 55.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279)
- Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1024 | 1165 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1001 | 1193 |
| LMArena Russian | 1055 | 1195 |
| LMArena French | 1044 | — |
| LMArena German | 1009 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 894 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 953 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1087 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287)
- Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1045 | 1161 |

## Long Context

- Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269)
- Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1064 | 1212 |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289)
- Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1084 | 1191 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1047 | 1175 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1050 | 1166 |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 2-13B better than Ministral 8B?

Llama 2-13B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.6 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Llama 2-13B or Ministral 8B better for coding?

Ministral 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.0 versus 30.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 2-13B and Ministral 8B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-13B has 32 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.