LLaMA 3 (8B/70B)vsMistral Medium 3.5
LLaMA 3 (8B/70B) | Mistral Medium 3.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Specifications | ||
ParametersA rough measure of how big the model is. More parameters usually means more capable and more expensive to run, though it is a poor guide on its own — a smaller, newer model often beats a larger, older one. | — | 128B |
Context windowHow much text the model can hold in mind at once — your question, any documents you attach, the conversation so far, and its own reply. Go past it and the earliest part falls out of view. | — | 256k |
| API pricingUSD per 1M tokens · lower wins | ||
Input priceWhat you pay for everything you send the model — your question, plus any documents or earlier conversation you include with it. | — | $1.50 |
Output priceWhat you pay for the text the model writes back. It is normally the dearer half: producing an answer costs more than reading one. | — | $7.50 |
| BenchmarksPublished by one model only | ||
SWE-Bench VerifiedCoding — Real coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | — | 77.6% |
Arena Elo (Code)Community preference (code) — Like the text arena, but people vote on which AI writes better code. The votes become a chess-style Elo rating on arena.ai. Higher is better. | — | 1267 |
| Overview | ||
| Company | Meta | Mistral |
| Release date | Apr 18 2024 | Apr 29 2026 |
| Access | Open Weight | Open Weight |
Frequently asked questions
LLaMA 3 (8B/70B) and Mistral Medium 3.5 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Only Mistral Medium 3.5 has a verified first-party API price: $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for LLaMA 3 (8B/70B). LLaMA 3 (8B/70B) shipped 741 days before Mistral Medium 3.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Published specifications for these two models are limited — see each model page for the latest details.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — LLaMA 3 (8B/70B) and Mistral Medium 3.5 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.
LLaMA 3 (8B/70B) was released by Meta on Apr 18 2024.
Mistral Medium 3.5 was released by Mistral on Apr 29 2026.
Only Mistral Medium 3.5 has a verified first-party API price: $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for LLaMA 3 (8B/70B). Rates are pay-as-you-go API prices verified on August 18, 2026.