# Llama 2-13B vs Mistral Small

> Mistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-2-13b-vs-mistral-small
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 19

## Summary

- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-13B scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Small in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Small leads 52.5 to 29.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 42.2% for Llama 2-13B and 70.9% for Mistral Small.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 2-13B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.6 | 33.4 |
| Rank | 309 | 243 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.60 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291)
- Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1062 | 1362 |
| SciCode | — | 26.5% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 36.1% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 36.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.6% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 497.62 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Llama 2-13B: —
- Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.1% |

## Reasoning

- Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337)
- Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1051 | 1335 |
| DTBench | 42.2% | 70.9% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 37.8% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 44.8% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 53.7% |
| LMCA | — | 20.6% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 58.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 106.17 | — |
| HellaSwag | 80.7% | — |
| LAMBADA | 76.5% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 44% |
| PIQA | 80.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | 72.8% | — |

## Math

- Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229)
- Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1065 | 1341 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 5.8% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 39.9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 46.8% |
| GSM8K | 36.9% | — |

## Knowledge

- Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249)
- Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1030 | 1291 |
| MMLU | 55.6% | 68.7% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.1% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 60.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 82.4% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 57% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.6% | — |

## Multimodal

- Llama 2-13B: —
- Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1142 |
| ScienceQA | 55.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279)
- Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1024 | 1315 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1001 | 1340 |
| LMArena French | 1044 | 1337 |
| LMArena German | 1009 | 1340 |
| LMArena Japanese | 894 | 1275 |
| LMArena Korean | 953 | 1259 |
| LMArena Russian | 1055 | 1324 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1087 | 1346 |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287)
- Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1045 | 1310 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 63.7% |

## Long Context

- Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269)
- Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1064 | 1327 |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289)
- Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1084 | 1338 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1047 | 1305 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1050 | 1344 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 30.5% |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 2-13B better than Mistral Small?

Mistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

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

Mistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 30.9 in the Noometry coding category.

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

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-13B has 32 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small has 39.