# Llama 2-7B vs Ministral 3B

> Llama 2-7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.1 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-2-7b-vs-ministral-3b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Llama 2-7B scores higher in 2 categories and Ministral 3B in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 2-7B leads 28.2 to 10.4.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 2-7B | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.1 | 26.2 |
| Rank | 317 | 338 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.10 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.10 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Llama 2-7B: 29.2 (#307)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1002 | — |

## Reasoning

- Llama 2-7B: 15.7 (#312)
- Ministral 3B: 18.4 (#282)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 99.06 | 118.1 |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1009 | — |
| DTBench | — | 51.7% |
| LMCA | — | 5.5% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 39.2% | — |
| HellaSwag | 77.2% | — |
| LAMBADA | 73.3% | — |
| PIQA | 78.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | 69.2% | — |

## Math

- Llama 2-7B: 30.7 (#233)
- Ministral 3B: 26.6 (#258)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1042 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 14.4% |
| GSM8K | 16.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#248)
- Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#302)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 25.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1036 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 45.9% | — |
| BoolQ | 77.9% | — |
| MMLU | 45.8% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 58.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 73.7% | — |

## Multimodal

- Llama 2-7B: —
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| ScienceQA | 43.1% | — |

## Multilingual

- Llama 2-7B: 23.8 (#293)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 973 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 973 | — |
| LMArena French | 970 | — |
| LMArena German | 978 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 995 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1007 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 2-7B: 50.8 (#298)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1006 | — |

## Long Context

- Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#287)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 999 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 2-7B: 28.0 (#298)
- Ministral 3B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Ministral 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1053 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1033 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1029 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 2-7B better than Ministral 3B?

Llama 2-7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.1 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 2-7B and Ministral 3B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Llama 2-7B has 29 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.