Model comparison

Llama 2-7B vs Mistral Small 3.2

Mistral Small 3.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-7B Meta

28.6

Rank #315 Confirmed

Mistral Small 3.2 Mistral AI

30.8

Rank #271 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-7B scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Small 3.2 in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Small 3.2 leads 45.1 to 28.1.

Side by side

Llama 2-7B and Mistral Small 3.2 specifications
Llama 2-7BMistral Small 3.2
ProviderMetaMistral AI
Noometry Index28.630.8
Released2023-07-182025-06-20
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—256K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.0938
Output $ / M tokens—$0.25
Results tracked296

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Llama 2-7B: 28.7 (#302), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Coding1002—

Reasoning Mistral Small 3.2 leads

Llama 2-7B: 15.1 (#309), Mistral Small 3.2: 17.5 (#282)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BMistral Small 3.2
Chess Puzzles0%1%
Epoch Capabilities Index98.54131.73
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1009—
BIG-Bench Hard39.2%—
HellaSwag77.2%—
LAMBADA73.3%—
PIQA78.8%—
WinoGrande69.2%—

Math Llama 2-7B leads

Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#231), Mistral Small 3.2: 24.9 (#251)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BMistral Small 3.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—30.3%
LMArena Math1042—
GSM8K16.7%—

Knowledge Too close to call

Llama 2-7B: 27.7 (#243), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.8 (#249)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BMistral Small 3.2
GPQA Diamond—49.1%
LMArena Expert1036—
ARC (AI2) Challenge45.9%—
BoolQ77.9%—
MMLU45.8%—
OpenBookQA58.6%—
TriviaQA73.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 2-7B: —, Mistral Small 3.2: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BMistral Small 3.2
ScienceQA43.1%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 2-7B: 23.9 (#288), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Non-English973—
LMArena Chinese973—
LMArena French969—
LMArena German978—
LMArena Russian995—
LMArena Spanish1007—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 2-7B: 51.0 (#293), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Instruction Following1006—

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#282), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Longer Query999—

Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3.2 leads

Llama 2-7B: 28.1 (#293), Mistral Small 3.2: 45.1 (#219)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-7BMistral Small 3.2
LMArena Text1053—
LMArena Creative Writing1033—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1255
LMArena Multi-Turn1029—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-7B better than Mistral Small 3.2?

Mistral Small 3.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-7B and Mistral Small 3.2 share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-7B has 29 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.

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