Model comparison
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct vs Mistral Medium
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct and Mistral Medium score almost the same on the Noometry Index (35.9 vs 36.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
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Mistral AISummary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral Medium in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium leads 60.0 to 43.4.
Side by side
| Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct | Mistral Medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | NVIDIA | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 35.9 | 36.3 |
| Released | — | 2023-12-11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $7.50 |
| Results tracked | 12 | 36 |
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Category by category
Coding Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct: 35.6 (#222), Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | 1434 |
| FrontierCode | — | 8% |
| SciCode | — | 40.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.7% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 763.98 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct: —, Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.7% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct: 23.5 (#177), Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1203 | 1426 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 50% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 75.5% |
| LMCA | — | 26.1% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 26.9% |
Math Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct: 34.6 (#193), Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1230 | 1408 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 32.2% |
| ProofBench | — | 9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 81.6% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |
Knowledge Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct: 31.9 (#218), Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1167 | 1408 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 59.5% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 4.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 22.7% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct: —, Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1172 |
Multilingual Mistral Medium leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct: 36.1 (#241), Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1181 | 1408 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1180 | 1447 |
| LMArena Russian | 1187 | 1411 |
| LMArena French | — | 1459 |
| LMArena German | — | 1432 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1378 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1380 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1433 |
Instruction Following Mistral Medium leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct: 62.9 (#233), Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1201 | 1398 |
Long Context Mistral Medium leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct: 36.5 (#230), Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1406 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Medium leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct: 43.4 (#229), Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1228 | 1424 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1213 | 1391 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | 1418 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 77.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct better than Mistral Medium?
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct and Mistral Medium score almost the same on the Noometry Index (35.9 vs 36.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct or Mistral Medium better for coding?
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.6 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct and Mistral Medium share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.1 Nemotron 51b Instruct has 12 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.