Model comparison
Codellama 70b Instruct vs Mistral Small
Codellama 70b Instruct and Mistral Small score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 33.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Small in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Mistral Small leads 45.5 to 24.8.
Side by side
| Codellama 70b Instruct | Mistral Small | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 33.4 |
| Released | — | 2024-02-26 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 256K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.60 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 39 |
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Category by category
Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 40.7% | 36.1% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 49.6% | 46.6% |
| SciCode | — | 26.5% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 36.2% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1362 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 497.62 |
| HumanEval+ | 65.9% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.1% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1052 | 1335 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 37.8% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 44.8% |
| DTBench | — | 70.9% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 53.7% |
| LMCA | — | 20.6% |
| LiveBench | — | 44% |
Math Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 5.8% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 39.9% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1341 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 46.8% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1291 |
| MMLU | — | 68.7% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1142 |
Multilingual Mistral Small leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 992 | 1315 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1340 |
| LMArena French | — | 1337 |
| LMArena German | — | 1340 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1275 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1259 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1324 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1346 |
Instruction Following Mistral Small leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1024 | 1310 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 63.7% |
Long Context Not comparable
Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1327 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Small leads
Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171)
| Benchmark | Codellama 70b Instruct | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1057 | 1338 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1305 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1344 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 30.5% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Mistral Small?
Codellama 70b Instruct and Mistral Small score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.7 vs 33.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Mistral Small better for coding?
Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Mistral Small share?
6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small has 39.