Model comparison
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct vs Mistral Small 3
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct and Mistral Small 3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.6 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.
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Mistral AISummary
- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct scores higher in 4 categories and Mistral Small 3 in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads 47.6 to 32.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 57.5% for Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct and 50.4% for Mistral Small 3.
- Mistral Small 3 is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.08 per million input/output tokens, against $0.10 / $0.32 for Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct.
- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 33K.
Side by side
| Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | Mistral Small 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.6 | 31.2 |
| Released | 2024-12-06 | 2025-01-30 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 33K |
| Max output | 4K | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.10 | $0.05 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.32 | $0.08 |
| Results tracked | 43 | 24 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Small 3 leads
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 31.0 (#290), Mistral Small 3: 36.5 (#207)
| Benchmark | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.9% | 45.3% |
| LMArena Coding | 1268 | 1246 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.5% | 50.4% |
| SciCode | 26% | — |
| WeirdML | 14.4% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 36.6% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 25.8 (#105), Mistral Small 3: —
| Benchmark | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 31.9% | — |
| BALROG | 23% | — |
Reasoning Mistral Small 3 leads
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 14.1 (#327), Mistral Small 3: 18.9 (#273)
| Benchmark | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1233 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.33 | 127.07 |
| SimpleBench | 19.9% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 50.8% | — |
| DTBench | 59.5% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 49.5% | — |
| LMCA | 17.5% | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.6 | — |
| LiveBench | 50.2% | — |
Math Too close to call
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 15.3 (#298), Mistral Small 3: 16.3 (#295)
| Benchmark | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 5.1% | 6.7% |
| LMArena Math | 1267 | 1240 |
| LiveBench Math | 42.2% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 41.6% | — |
Knowledge Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.6 (#226), Mistral Small 3: 25.1 (#263)
| Benchmark | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.4% | 47.3% |
| Confabulations | 22.8% | 25.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1225 | 1202 |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 4.1% | — |
| MMLU | 86.3% | — |
Multilingual Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 39.9 (#220), Mistral Small 3: 37.3 (#236)
| Benchmark | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1236 | 1198 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1217 | 1204 |
| LMArena French | 1281 | 1203 |
| LMArena German | 1251 | 1211 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1150 | 1111 |
| LMArena Korean | 1143 | 1188 |
| LMArena Russian | 1252 | 1216 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1270 | — |
Instruction Following Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 71.1 (#157), Mistral Small 3: 63.7 (#229)
| Benchmark | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1242 | 1214 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 82.7% | — |
Long Context Mistral Small 3 leads
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 26.4 (#295), Mistral Small 3: 37.8 (#211)
| Benchmark | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1256 | 1246 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 33.3% | — |
Writing & Preference Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 47.6 (#207), Mistral Small 3: 32.2 (#280)
| Benchmark | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1274 | 1234 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1250 | 1195 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1280 | 1217 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 707 |
| LiveBench Language | 39.2% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct better than Mistral Small 3?
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct and Mistral Small 3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.6 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct or Mistral Small 3?
Mistral Small 3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.08 per million output tokens; Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct lists at $0.10 and $0.32.
Is Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct or Mistral Small 3 better for coding?
Mistral Small 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.5 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct does, with 128K tokens against 33K.
How many benchmarks do Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct and Mistral Small 3 share?
22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has 43 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3 has 24.