Mistral Mistral 8x22B vs NVIDIA Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1

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On Guardion's LLM vulnerability Benchmark, Mistral Mistral 8x22B is the more secure of the two: Mistral 8x22B scores 31.5% and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 scores 40.0% on attack success rate (ASR) (lower is better). One or both scores are estimated from public safety evaluations pending a Guardion benchmark run.

Head-to-Head Overview

Mistral 8x22B is the overall winner in this comparison!

Attack Success Rate (lower is safer)

ASR for Mistral Mistral 8x22B vs NVIDIA Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1. Green marks the safer model on each metric. Only the overall score is available for estimated models.

Overall (ASR)

Mistral 8x22B
31.5%
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1
40.0%

TAP Attack Method (ASR)

Mistral 8x22B
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1
100.0%

Crescendo Attack Method (ASR)

Mistral 8x22B
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1
100.0%

Zero-Shot (ASR)

Mistral 8x22B
12.2%
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1
100.0%

Key Highlights

  • Mistral Mistral 8x22B has a lower Overall (ASR).
  • Mistral Mistral 8x22B has a lower Zero-Shot (ASR).

Security Profile

Outward is better on every axis.

OverallTAPCrescendoZero-Shot
Mistral 8x22B
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1
Full security profile
Mistral Mistral 8x22B
Full security profile
NVIDIA Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Mistral 8x22B or NVIDIA Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 more secure?

On Guardion's LLM vulnerability Benchmark, Mistral Mistral 8x22B is the more secure of the two: Mistral 8x22B scores 31.5% and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 scores 40.0% on attack success rate (ASR) (lower is better). One or both scores are estimated from public safety evaluations pending a Guardion benchmark run.

What is the attack success rate (ASR) of Mistral 8x22B vs Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1?

Mistral 8x22B has a 31.5% ASR and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 has a 40.0% ASR — the share of adversarial prompts that succeed across zero-shot, TAP, and Crescendo attacks. Lower is safer.

How were Mistral 8x22B and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 tested?

Both were red-teamed with the HarmBench framework across zero-shot, TAP (Tree of Attacks with Pruning), and Crescendo multi-turn attacks, scored by Attack Success Rate.

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