# Llama 2-13B vs Mistral Medium 3.5

> Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-2-13b-vs-mistral-medium-3-5
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-13B scores higher in 0 categories and Mistral Medium 3.5 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium 3.5 leads 58.6 to 30.0.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 2-13B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.1 | 39.6 |
| Rank | 304 | 151 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | — | $7.50 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Llama 2-13B: 30.4 (#287)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 35.7 (#208)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1062 | 1461 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1263 |

## Reasoning

- Llama 2-13B: 12.3 (#333)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 16.6 (#290)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1051 | 1436 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 105.8 | 141.42 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 41.4% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 12.9% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| DTBench | 42.2% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 58.2% | — |
| HellaSwag | 80.7% | — |
| LAMBADA | 76.5% | — |
| PIQA | 80.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | 72.8% | — |

## Math

- Llama 2-13B: 28.7 (#226)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.4 (#113)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1065 | 1432 |
| GSM8K | 36.9% | — |

## Knowledge

- Llama 2-13B: 27.5 (#244)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.3 (#123)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1030 | 1431 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 60.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 82.4% | — |
| MMLU | 55.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 57% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.6% | — |

## Multimodal

- Llama 2-13B: —
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 37.6 (#64)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1222 |
| ScienceQA | 55.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Llama 2-13B: 26.7 (#274)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 52.1 (#93)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1024 | 1405 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1001 | 1443 |
| LMArena French | 1043 | 1448 |
| LMArena German | 1009 | 1453 |
| LMArena Korean | 953 | 1387 |
| LMArena Russian | 1055 | 1396 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1086 | 1406 |
| LMArena Japanese | 894 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 2-13B: 53.5 (#282)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.7 (#87)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1046 | 1414 |

## Long Context

- Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#264)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#101)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1064 | 1414 |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 2-13B: 30.0 (#284)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.6 (#113)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1085 | 1421 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1047 | 1372 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1050 | 1423 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 993 |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 2-13B better than Mistral Medium 3.5?

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Llama 2-13B or Mistral Medium 3.5 better for coding?

Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.7 versus 30.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 2-13B and Mistral Medium 3.5 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-13B has 32 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22.