Model comparison

Mistral Large vs Wizardlm 70b

Mistral Large and Wizardlm 70b score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.6 vs 32.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Large Mistral AI

31.6

Rank #258 Confirmed

Wizardlm 70b Microsoft

32.4

Rank #245 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Large scores higher in 5 categories and Wizardlm 70b in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Wizardlm 70b leads 29.7 to 17.1.

Side by side

Mistral Large and Wizardlm 70b specifications
Mistral LargeWizardlm 70b
ProviderMistral AIMicrosoft
Noometry Index31.632.4
Released2024-02-26—
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$6—
Results tracked5112

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Category by category

Coding Mistral Large leads

Mistral Large: 33.8 (#240), Wizardlm 70b: 30.9 (#280)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeWizardlm 70b
LMArena Coding12771081
SciCode36.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct30%—
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete38.3%—
ALE-Bench264.7—
HumanEval+62.2%—
MBPP+59.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral Large: 28.4 (#83), Wizardlm 70b: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeWizardlm 70b
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard38.4%—

Reasoning Wizardlm 70b leads

Mistral Large: 15.4 (#305), Wizardlm 70b: 19.8 (#231)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeWizardlm 70b
LMArena Hard Prompts12571079
SimpleBench22.5%—
CritPt0%—
LiveBench Reasoning43.5%—
DTBench65.1%—
LiveBench Data Analysis50.1%—
LMCA16.7%—
Epoch Capabilities Index128.52—
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench48.4%—

Math Wizardlm 70b leads

Mistral Large: 17.1 (#285), Wizardlm 70b: 29.7 (#216)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeWizardlm 70b
LMArena Math12621116
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%—
Omni-MATH28.1%—
LiveBench Math42.5%—
MATH Level 550.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Mistral Large: 30.0 (#224), Wizardlm 70b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeWizardlm 70b
GPQA Diamond51.3%—
MMLU-Pro59.9%—
Confabulations21.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate4.5%—
GPQA (HELM)43.5%—
LMArena Expert1232—
MMLU80%—

Multilingual Mistral Large leads

Mistral Large: 40.1 (#214), Wizardlm 70b: 29.8 (#260)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeWizardlm 70b
LMArena Non-English12371078
LMArena Chinese12401052
LMArena German12541083
LMArena Russian12571155
LMArena French1324—
LMArena Japanese1187—
LMArena Korean1202—
LMArena Spanish1268—

Instruction Following Mistral Large leads

Mistral Large: 68.1 (#186), Wizardlm 70b: 56.5 (#268)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeWizardlm 70b
LMArena Instruction Following12491093
LiveBench Instruction Following67.9%—
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Mistral Large leads

Mistral Large: 38.3 (#194), Wizardlm 70b: 33.3 (#258)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeWizardlm 70b
LMArena Longer Query12621097

Writing & Preference Mistral Large leads

Mistral Large: 40.9 (#237), Wizardlm 70b: 34.9 (#264)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargeWizardlm 70b
LMArena Text12661120
LMArena Creative Writing12431149
LMArena Multi-Turn12601108
Short-Story Creative Writing69%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing985—
WildBench80.1%—
LiveBench Language39.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Large better than Wizardlm 70b?

Mistral Large and Wizardlm 70b score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.6 vs 32.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Mistral Large or Wizardlm 70b better for coding?

Mistral Large scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 30.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Large and Wizardlm 70b share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Large has 51 scored results on Noometry and Wizardlm 70b has 12.

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