Model comparison
Mistral Small vs Wizardlm 13b
Mistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small scores higher in 6 categories and Wizardlm 13b in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Small leads 52.5 to 30.5.
Side by side
| Mistral Small | Wizardlm 13b | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 33.4 | 31.4 |
| Released | 2024-02-26 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | — |
| Max output | 256K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.15 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.60 | — |
| Results tracked | 39 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247), Wizardlm 13b: 30.1 (#298)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Wizardlm 13b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1362 | 1035 |
| SciCode | 26.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 36.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 36.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 46.6% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 497.62 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93), Wizardlm 13b: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Wizardlm 13b |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.1% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250), Wizardlm 13b: 19.4 (#259)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Wizardlm 13b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1335 | 1018 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 44.8% | — |
| DTBench | 70.9% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 53.7% | — |
| LMCA | 20.6% | — |
| LiveBench | 44% | — |
Math Wizardlm 13b leads
Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293), Wizardlm 13b: 30.2 (#238)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Wizardlm 13b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1341 | 1017 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 5.8% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 39.9% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.8% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222), Wizardlm 13b: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Wizardlm 13b |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1291 | — |
| MMLU | 68.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96), Wizardlm 13b: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Wizardlm 13b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1142 | — |
Multilingual Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169), Wizardlm 13b: 27.1 (#277)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Wizardlm 13b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1315 | 1034 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1340 | 1023 |
| LMArena French | 1337 | — |
| LMArena German | 1340 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1275 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1259 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1324 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1346 | — |
Instruction Following Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209), Wizardlm 13b: 53.5 (#285)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Wizardlm 13b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1310 | 1048 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.7% | — |
Long Context Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156), Wizardlm 13b: 32.0 (#273)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Wizardlm 13b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1327 | 1054 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171), Wizardlm 13b: 30.5 (#287)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Wizardlm 13b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1338 | 1077 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1305 | 1091 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1344 | 1047 |
| LiveBench Language | 30.5% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Small better than Wizardlm 13b?
Mistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Mistral Small or Wizardlm 13b better for coding?
Mistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 30.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Small and Wizardlm 13b share?
10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small has 39 scored results on Noometry and Wizardlm 13b has 10.