# Llama 3-70B vs Mistral Medium 3.1

> Mistral Medium 3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.5 to 28.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-3-70b-vs-mistral-medium-3-1
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium 3.1 leads 55.6 to 43.0.
- Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 3-70B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 28.5 | 31.5 |
| Rank | 317 | 260 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.40 |
| Output $/M | — | $2 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Llama 3-70B: 35.3 (#215)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.6% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1206 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 54.5% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 72% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Llama 3-70B: 20.9 (#132)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 5% | — |

## Reasoning

- Llama 3-70B: 17.4 (#284)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 10.1 (#336)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 35.1% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 6.5% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 20.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1195 | — |
| DTBench | 54.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 122.91 | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.1 | — |
| WinoGrande | 83.5% | — |

## Math

- Llama 3-70B: 12.0 (#299)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.3% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1218 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 22.6% | — |

## Knowledge

- Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#272)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1149 | — |
| MMLU | 79.3% | — |

## Multilingual

- Llama 3-70B: 33.8 (#246)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1142 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1114 | — |
| LMArena French | 1231 | — |
| LMArena German | 1169 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1017 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1017 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1159 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1241 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 3-70B: 62.8 (#233)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1194 | — |

## Long Context

- Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#235)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1174 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 3-70B: 43.0 (#225)
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 55.6 (#140)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1221 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1210 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1476 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1223 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 3-70B better than Mistral Medium 3.1?

Mistral Medium 3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.5 to 28.5 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 3-70B and Mistral Medium 3.1 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3-70B has 31 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.1 has 3.