Mistral vs Llama 3: A Complete Comparison for Voice AI Applications

Mistral and Llama 3 split on philosophy for voice AI: Mistral's 7B to Mistral Small 3.1 (24B) models favor low-latency efficiency, while Llama 3 scales from 8B to 70B for stronger reasoning and multilingual reach. Mistral Small 3.1 reaches 0.29s time to first token at 150-166 tokens per second, and Mistral Small 24B beats Llama 3.1 8B Instruct on ARC-C, GPQA and MMLU, while Llama 3.1 405B scores 85.2% on MMLU and 96.8% on GSM8K.