Model comparison

Codellama 34b Instruct vs Mistral Small 3.2

Codellama 34b Instruct and Mistral Small 3.2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

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Codellama 34b Instruct Meta

30.8

Rank #287 Confirmed

Mistral Small 3.2 Mistral AI

31.2

Rank #280 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Small 3.2 leads 45.0 to 28.2.

Side by side

Codellama 34b Instruct and Mistral Small 3.2 specifications
Codellama 34b InstructMistral Small 3.2
ProviderMetaMistral AI
Noometry Index30.831.2
Released—2025-06-20
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—256K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.0938
Output $ / M tokens—$0.25
Results tracked146

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructMistral Small 3.2
BigCodeBench Instruct29%—
LMArena Coding1046—
BigCodeBench Complete37.1%—
HumanEval+43.9%—
MBPP+56.3%—

Reasoning Codellama 34b Instruct leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255), Mistral Small 3.2: 18.1 (#287)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructMistral Small 3.2
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.4%
Chess Puzzles—1%
LMArena Hard Prompts1032—
Epoch Capabilities Index—131.74

Math Codellama 34b Instruct leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.3 (#260)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructMistral Small 3.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—30.3%
LMArena Math1056—

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Mistral Small 3.2: 26.7 (#256)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructMistral Small 3.2
GPQA Diamond—49.1%

Multilingual Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Non-English1011—
LMArena Chinese976—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Instruction Following1028—

Long Context Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Longer Query1013—

Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3.2 leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297), Mistral Small 3.2: 45.0 (#224)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Text1066—
LMArena Creative Writing1032—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1255
LMArena Multi-Turn1015—

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than Mistral Small 3.2?

Codellama 34b Instruct and Mistral Small 3.2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and Mistral Small 3.2 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.

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