# Llama 2-34B vs Ministral 8B

> Ministral 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#325); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-2-34b-vs-ministral-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- Ministral 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 2-34B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | — | 28.2 |
| Rank | — | 325 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1202 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 11.1% |

## Reasoning

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1191 |
| DTBench | — | 45.7% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 44.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 105.2 | — |
| PIQA | 81.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 76.7% | — |

## Math

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1188 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 14.9% |
| GSM8K | 42.2% | — |

## Knowledge

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 27.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1170 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 54.5% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.7% | — |
| MMLU | 62.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 58.2% | — |
| TriviaQA | 84.6% | — |

## Multilingual

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1165 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1193 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1195 |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1161 |

## Long Context

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1212 |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1191 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1175 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1166 |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 2-34B better than Ministral 8B?

Ministral 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#325); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 2-34B and Ministral 8B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-34B has 10 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.