# Llama 2-70B vs Mistral

> Mistral is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-2-70b-vs-mistral
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-70B scores higher in 1 category and Mistral in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Mistral leads 22.3 to 8.1.
- Llama 2-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 2-70B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 24.4 | 29.9 |
| Rank | 349 | 303 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)
- Mistral: 33.8 (#250)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1079 | 1162 |

## Reasoning

- Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)
- Mistral: 22.2 (#200)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1073 | 1149 |
| DTBench | 41.6% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 64.9% | — |
| CommonsenseQA 2.0 | 50% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 113.79 | — |
| ForecastBench | 51.4 | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 78.9% | — |
| PIQA | 82.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | 80.2% | — |

## Math

- Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)
- Mistral: 22.3 (#278)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1091 | 1180 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 7.2% |
| MATH Level 5 | 3.3% | — |
| GSM8K | 69.6% | — |

## Knowledge

- Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)
- Mistral: 16.6 (#288)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1039 | 1125 |
| GPQA Diamond | 26.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 27.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 30.3% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 88.6% | — |
| MMLU | 69.9% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 60.2% | — |
| TriviaQA | 87.6% | — |

## Multilingual

- Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)
- Mistral: 32.8 (#254)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1045 | 1129 |
| LMArena Chinese | 995 | 1109 |
| LMArena French | 1090 | 1180 |
| LMArena German | 1041 | 1155 |
| LMArena Japanese | 927 | 1013 |
| LMArena Korean | 964 | 1032 |
| LMArena Russian | 1083 | 1168 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1143 | 1143 |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)
- Mistral: 52.6 (#288)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1071 | 1152 |
| IFEval | — | 56.8% |

## Long Context

- Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)
- Mistral: 35.0 (#245)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1062 | 1153 |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)
- Mistral: 37.0 (#260)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1115 | 1165 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1075 | 1158 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1088 | 1147 |
| WildBench | — | 66% |

## FAQ

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

Mistral is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

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

Mistral scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

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

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