Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs Mistral Small 3.2

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

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Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 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 33.4.

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and Mistral Small 3.2 specifications
Codellama 70b InstructMistral Small 3.2
ProviderMetaMistral AI
Noometry Index33.731.2
Released—2025-06-20
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—256K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.0938
Output $ / M tokens—$0.25
Results tracked76

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructMistral Small 3.2
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%—
HumanEval+65.9%—

Reasoning Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Mistral Small 3.2: 18.1 (#287)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructMistral Small 3.2
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.4%
Chess Puzzles—1%
LMArena Hard Prompts1052—
Epoch Capabilities Index—131.74

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Mistral Small 3.2: 26.3 (#260)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructMistral Small 3.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—30.3%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Mistral Small 3.2: 26.7 (#256)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructMistral Small 3.2
GPQA Diamond—49.1%

Multilingual Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Non-English992—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Instruction Following1024—

Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3.2 leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Mistral Small 3.2: 45.0 (#224)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Text1057—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1255

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Mistral Small 3.2?

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Mistral Small 3.2 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.

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