# Llama 2-7B vs Mistral Medium

> Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.0 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-2-7b-vs-mistral-medium
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 15

## Summary

- They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-7B scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Medium in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium leads 60.2 to 28.1.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 2-7B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 28.6 | 36.0 |
| Rank | 315 | 211 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | — | $7.50 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Llama 2-7B: 28.7 (#302)
- Mistral Medium: 33.8 (#241)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1002 | 1434 |
| FrontierCode | — | 8% |
| SciCode | — | 40.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.7% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 763.98 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Llama 2-7B: —
- Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#84)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.7% |

## Reasoning

- Llama 2-7B: 15.1 (#309)
- Mistral Medium: 23.3 (#165)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1009 | 1426 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 50% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| DTBench | — | 75.5% |
| LMCA | — | 26.1% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 26.9% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 39.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 98.54 | — |
| HellaSwag | 77.2% | — |
| LAMBADA | 73.3% | — |
| PIQA | 78.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | 69.2% | — |

## Math

- Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#231)
- Mistral Medium: 27.2 (#238)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1042 | 1409 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 32.2% |
| ProofBench | — | 9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 81.6% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |
| GSM8K | 16.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Llama 2-7B: 27.7 (#243)
- Mistral Medium: 24.9 (#260)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1036 | 1408 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 59.5% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 4.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 22.7% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 45.9% | — |
| BoolQ | 77.9% | — |
| MMLU | 45.8% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 58.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 73.7% | — |

## Multimodal

- Llama 2-7B: —
- Mistral Medium: 34.6 (#82)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1172 |
| ScienceQA | 43.1% | — |

## Multilingual

- Llama 2-7B: 23.9 (#288)
- Mistral Medium: 52.3 (#86)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 973 | 1408 |
| LMArena Chinese | 973 | 1448 |
| LMArena French | 969 | 1460 |
| LMArena German | 978 | 1433 |
| LMArena Russian | 995 | 1411 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1007 | 1433 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1378 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1382 |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 2-7B: 51.0 (#293)
- Mistral Medium: 73.9 (#111)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1006 | 1398 |

## Long Context

- Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#282)
- Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#108)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 999 | 1406 |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 2-7B: 28.1 (#293)
- Mistral Medium: 60.2 (#97)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1053 | 1424 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1033 | 1391 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1029 | 1418 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 77.3% |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 2-7B better than Mistral Medium?

Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.0 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Llama 2-7B or Mistral Medium better for coding?

Mistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 28.7 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 2-7B and Mistral Medium share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-7B has 29 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.