Llama 3.1 70B (Instruct) vs Mistral Large 2
Compare Llama 3.1 70B (Instruct) by Meta AI against Mistral Large 2 by Mistral AI, context windows of 128K vs 128K, tested across 22 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Llama 3.1 70B (Instruct)
Mistral Large 2
No community votes yet. On paper, these are closely matched - try both with your actual task to see which fits your workflow.
Llama 3.1 70B (Instruct) is 30x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Llama 3.1 70B (Instruct)
Input
$0.59
14× cheaper
Output
$0.79
30× cheaper
Mistral Large 2
Input
$8.00
Output
$24.00
Llama 3.1 70B (Instruct) is cheaper on both — 14× input, 30× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
54%
Mistral Large 2 uses 79.6x more emoji
Llama 3.1 70B (Instruct)
Mistral Large 2
51%Vocabulary43%
18wSentence Length21w
0.46Hedging0.39
3.4Bold14.4
5.6Lists7.4
0.00Emoji0.80
0.00Headings1.41
0.06Transitions0.01
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