Model comparison

Llama 3-70B vs Mistral 7B

Llama 3-70B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.8 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Mistral 7B Mistral AI

23.0

Rank #351 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3-70B scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 3-70B leads 20.8 to 7.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 54.5% for Llama 3-70B and 27.3% for Mistral 7B.

Side by side

Llama 3-70B and Mistral 7B specifications
Llama 3-70BMistral 7B
ProviderMetaMistral AI
Noometry Index28.823.0
Released2024-04-182023-09-27
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—8K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$0.25
Results tracked3137

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Category by category

Coding Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218), Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BMistral 7B
BigCodeBench Instruct43.6%19.5%
LMArena Coding12061082
BigCodeBench Complete54.5%27.3%
HumanEval+72%36%
MBPP+69%42.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139), Mistral 7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BMistral 7B
Cybench5%—

Reasoning Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BMistral 7B
LMArena Hard Prompts11951067
DTBench54.2%42.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index122.93112.21
WinoGrande83.5%75.3%
Kagi LLM Benchmark35.1%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
Adversarial NLI—47.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—56.1%
ForecastBench57.1—
HellaSwag—81%
PIQA—83%

Math Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BMistral 7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.3%0.3%
LMArena Math12181085
MATH Level 522.6%3.7%
GSM8K—54.4%

Knowledge Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BMistral 7B
GPQA Diamond40.6%15.2%
LMArena Expert11491036
MMLU79.3%62.5%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.6%
BoolQ—87.4%
OpenBookQA—79.8%
TriviaQA—75.2%

Multilingual Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251), Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BMistral 7B
LMArena Non-English11421012
LMArena Chinese11141009
LMArena French12321037
LMArena German1169987
LMArena Japanese1017878
LMArena Russian11591018
LMArena Spanish12411026
LMArena Korean1017—

Instruction Following Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238), Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BMistral 7B
LMArena Instruction Following11941060

Long Context Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BMistral 7B
LMArena Longer Query11741060

Writing & Preference Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231), Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70BMistral 7B
LMArena Text12211090
LMArena Creative Writing12101068
LMArena Multi-Turn12231062

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 3-70B better than Mistral 7B?

Llama 3-70B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.8 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 3-70B or Mistral 7B better for coding?

Llama 3-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 3-70B and Mistral 7B share?

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3-70B has 31 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.

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