Model comparison

Llama 2-13B vs Mistral Medium

Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.6

Rank #309 Confirmed

Mistral Medium Mistral AI

36.3

Rank #218 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-13B scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Medium in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium leads 60.0 to 29.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 42.2% for Llama 2-13B and 75.5% for Mistral Medium.

Side by side

Llama 2-13B and Mistral Medium specifications
Llama 2-13BMistral Medium
ProviderMetaMistral AI
Noometry Index29.636.3
Released2023-07-182023-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.50
Output $ / M tokens—$7.50
Results tracked3236

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Category by category

Coding Mistral Medium leads

Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291), Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BMistral Medium
LMArena Coding10621434
FrontierCode—8%
SciCode—40.2%
WeirdML—43.7%
ALE-Bench—763.98

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 2-13B: —, Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BMistral Medium
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.7%

Reasoning Mistral Medium leads

Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337), Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BMistral Medium
LMArena Hard Prompts10511426
DTBench42.2%75.5%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—50%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles0%—
LMCA—26.1%
Surface Evolver Bench—26.9%
BIG-Bench Hard58.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index106.17—
HellaSwag80.7%—
LAMBADA76.5%—
PIQA80.8%—
WinoGrande72.8%—

Math Llama 2-13B leads

Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229), Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BMistral Medium
LMArena Math10651408
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—32.2%
ProofBench—9%
MATH Level 5—81.6%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.3%
GSM8K36.9%—

Knowledge Llama 2-13B leads

Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249), Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BMistral Medium
LMArena Expert10301408
GPQA Diamond—59.5%
Humanity's Last Exam—4.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—22.7%
ARC (AI2) Challenge60.3%—
BoolQ82.4%—
MMLU55.6%—
OpenBookQA57%—
TriviaQA79.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 2-13B: —, Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BMistral Medium
LMArena Vision—1172
ScienceQA55.8%—

Multilingual Mistral Medium leads

Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279), Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BMistral Medium
LMArena Non-English10241408
LMArena Chinese10011447
LMArena French10441459
LMArena German10091432
LMArena Japanese8941378
LMArena Korean9531380
LMArena Russian10551411
LMArena Spanish10871433

Instruction Following Mistral Medium leads

Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287), Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BMistral Medium
LMArena Instruction Following10451398

Long Context Mistral Medium leads

Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269), Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BMistral Medium
LMArena Longer Query10641406

Writing & Preference Mistral Medium leads

Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289), Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BMistral Medium
LMArena Text10841424
LMArena Creative Writing10471391
LMArena Multi-Turn10501418
Short-Story Creative Writing—77.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-13B better than Mistral Medium?

Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 2-13B or Mistral Medium better for coding?

Mistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.2 versus 30.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-13B and Mistral Medium share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-13B has 32 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.

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