# Llama 3.2 90B vs Mistral Large

> Mistral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.6 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-3-2-90b-vs-mistral-large
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 5

## Summary

- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3.2 90B scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Large in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Mistral Large leads 30.0 to 21.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 39.4% for Llama 3.2 90B and 50.3% for Mistral Large.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 3.2 90B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 27.1 | 31.6 |
| Rank | 326 | 258 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $2 |
| Output $/M | — | $6 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Llama 3.2 90B: —
- Mistral Large: 33.8 (#240)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 36.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 30% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 47.1% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1277 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.3% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 264.7 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 62.2% |
| MBPP+ | — | 59.5% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Llama 3.2 90B: 29.7 (#73)
- Mistral Large: 28.4 (#83)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 38.4% |
| BALROG | 27.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Llama 3.2 90B: 20.9 (#207)
- Mistral Large: 15.4 (#305)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 125.5 | 128.52 |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.4% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 43.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1257 |
| DTBench | — | 65.1% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 50.1% |
| LMCA | — | 16.7% |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.1 |
| LiveBench | — | 48.4% |

## Math

- Llama 3.2 90B: 10.4 (#302)
- Mistral Large: 17.1 (#285)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.6% | 8.5% |
| MATH Level 5 | 39.4% | 50.3% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 28.1% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 42.5% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1262 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |

## Knowledge

- Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#269)
- Mistral Large: 30.0 (#224)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 41% | 51.3% |
| MMLU | 80.3% | 80% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 59.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 21.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 43.5% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1232 |

## Multimodal

- Llama 3.2 90B: 24.9 (#119)
- Mistral Large: —

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1000 | — |
| GeoBench | 52% | — |

## Multilingual

- Llama 3.2 90B: —
- Mistral Large: 40.1 (#214)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1237 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1240 |
| LMArena French | — | 1324 |
| LMArena German | — | 1254 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1187 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1202 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1257 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1268 |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 3.2 90B: —
- Mistral Large: 68.1 (#186)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 67.9% |
| IFEval | — | 87.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1249 |

## Long Context

- Llama 3.2 90B: —
- Mistral Large: 38.3 (#194)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1262 |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 3.2 90B: —
- Mistral Large: 40.9 (#237)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1266 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1243 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 69% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 985 |
| WildBench | — | 80.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1260 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 39.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 3.2 90B better than Mistral Large?

Mistral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.6 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 3.2 90B and Mistral Large share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.2 90B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large has 51.