# Llama 2-70B vs Mistral Small

> Mistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-2-70b-vs-mistral-small
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 22

## Summary

- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-70B scores higher in 0 categories and Mistral Small in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Mistral Small leads 31.0 to 7.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 3.3% for Llama 2-70B and 46.8% for Mistral Small.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 2-70B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 24.4 | 33.4 |
| Rank | 349 | 243 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.60 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)
- Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1079 | 1362 |
| SciCode | — | 26.5% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 36.1% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 36.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.6% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 497.62 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Llama 2-70B: —
- Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.1% |

## Reasoning

- Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)
- Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1073 | 1335 |
| DTBench | 41.6% | 70.9% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 37.8% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 44.8% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 53.7% |
| LMCA | — | 20.6% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 64.9% | — |
| CommonsenseQA 2.0 | 50% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 113.79 | — |
| ForecastBench | 51.4 | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 78.9% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 44% |
| PIQA | 82.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | 80.2% | — |

## Math

- Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)
- Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0% | 5.8% |
| LMArena Math | 1091 | 1341 |
| MATH Level 5 | 3.3% | 46.8% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 39.9% |
| GSM8K | 69.6% | — |

## Knowledge

- Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)
- Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 26.3% | 47.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1039 | 1291 |
| MMLU | 69.9% | 68.7% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.1% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 88.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 60.2% | — |
| TriviaQA | 87.6% | — |

## Multimodal

- Llama 2-70B: —
- Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1142 |

## Multilingual

- Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)
- Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1045 | 1315 |
| LMArena Chinese | 995 | 1340 |
| LMArena French | 1090 | 1337 |
| LMArena German | 1041 | 1340 |
| LMArena Japanese | 927 | 1275 |
| LMArena Korean | 964 | 1259 |
| LMArena Russian | 1083 | 1324 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1143 | 1346 |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)
- Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1071 | 1310 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 63.7% |

## Long Context

- Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)
- Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1062 | 1327 |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)
- Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1115 | 1338 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1075 | 1305 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1088 | 1344 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 30.5% |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 2-70B better than Mistral Small?

Mistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Llama 2-70B or Mistral Small better for coding?

Mistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 2-70B and Mistral Small share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-70B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small has 39.