Price Per TokenPrice Per Token
Mistral AI
Mistral AI
vs
Sao10k

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 vs Llama 3 8B Lunaris

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

Track Your LLM Costs Across Every Provider Broken down by user, feature, and endpoint

107 out of our 483 tracked models have had a price change in March.

Get our weekly newsletter on pricing changes, new releases, and tools.

Key Takeaways

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 wins:

  • Larger context window
  • Faster response time
  • Better at math
  • Supports tool calls

Llama 3 8B Lunaris wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Has reasoning mode
Price Advantage
Llama 3 8B Lunaris
Benchmark Advantage
Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501
Context Window
Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501
Speed
Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501

Pricing Comparison

Price Comparison

MetricMistral Small 24B Instruct 2501Llama 3 8B LunarisWinner
Input (per 1M tokens)$0.05$0.04 Llama 3 8B Lunaris
Output (per 1M tokens)$0.08$0.05 Llama 3 8B Lunaris
Cache Read (per 1M)$0.45N/A Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501
Using a 3:1 input/output ratio, Llama 3 8B Lunaris is 26% cheaper overall.

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 Providers

No provider data available

Llama 3 8B Lunaris Providers

No provider data available

Benchmark Comparison

7
Benchmarks Compared
2
Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 Wins
1
Llama 3 8B Lunaris Wins

Benchmark Scores

BenchmarkMistral Small 24B Instruct 2501Llama 3 8B LunarisWinner
Intelligence Index
Overall intelligence score
12.725.6
Math Index
Mathematical reasoning
4.3--
MMLU Pro
Academic knowledge
65.231.0
GPQA
Graduate-level science
46.26.8
LiveCodeBench
Competitive programming
25.2--
AIME
Competition math
8.0--
BBH
Big-Bench Hard
-32.1-
Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 wins 2 out of 7 benchmarks.

Cost vs Quality

X-axis:
Y-axis:
Loading chart...
Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501
Other models

Context & Performance

Context Window

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501
32,768
tokens
Llama 3 8B Lunaris
8,192
tokens
Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 has a 75% larger context window.

Speed Performance

MetricMistral Small 24B Instruct 2501Llama 3 8B LunarisWinner
Tokens/second180.9 tok/sN/A
Time to First Token0.32sN/A

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureMistral Small 24B Instruct 2501Llama 3 8B Lunaris
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyMistral Small 24B Instruct 2501Llama 3 8B Lunaris
LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source
AuthorMistral AISao10k
ReleasedJan 2025Aug 2024

Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 Modalities

Input
text
Output
text

Llama 3 8B Lunaris Modalities

Input
text
Output
text

Related Comparisons

Compare Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 with:

Compare Llama 3 8B Lunaris with:

Frequently Asked Questions

Llama 3 8B Lunaris has cheaper input pricing at $0.04/M tokens. Llama 3 8B Lunaris has cheaper output pricing at $0.05/M tokens.
Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 scores higher on coding benchmarks with a score of N/A, compared to Llama 3 8B Lunaris's score of N/A.
Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 has a 32,768 token context window, while Llama 3 8B Lunaris has a 8,192 token context window.
Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501 does not support vision. Llama 3 8B Lunaris does not support vision.