Mistral 7B is above every Llama-2 finetune, including the 10x larger llama-2 70B, on the Open LLM Leaderboard.
https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderb...
(Note: Check "architecture" and uncheck precision "?" then ignore "tigerbot" as it was disqualified for cheating.)