Model comparison

Codestral vs Falcon-180B

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Codestral Mistral AI

30.6

Rank #290 Reported

Summary

  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Codestral and Falcon-180B specifications
CodestralFalcon-180B
ProviderMistral AITechnology Innovation Institute
Noometry Index30.632.2
Released2024-05-292023-09-06
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window256K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.30—
Output $ / M tokens$0.90—
Results tracked716

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Codestral: 27.3 (#321), Falcon-180B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralFalcon-180B
Aider Polyglot11.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct41.8%—
BigCodeBench Complete52.5%—
ALE-Bench137.78—
HumanEval+73.8%—
MBPP+61.9%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Codestral: 19.8 (#251), Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralFalcon-180B
Kagi LLM Benchmark32.5%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1007
Epoch Capabilities Index—112.13
HellaSwag—89%
LAMBADA—79.8%
PIQA—84.9%
WinoGrande—87.1%

Math Not comparable

Codestral: —, Falcon-180B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralFalcon-180B
GSM8K—54.4%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codestral: —, Falcon-180B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralFalcon-180B
ARC (AI2) Challenge—67.8%
BoolQ—89%
MMLU—70.6%
OpenBookQA—64.2%

Multilingual Not comparable

Codestral: —, Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralFalcon-180B
LMArena Non-English—1000

Instruction Following Not comparable

Codestral: —, Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralFalcon-180B
LMArena Instruction Following—1047

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Codestral: —, Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralFalcon-180B
LMArena Text—1054
LMArena Creative Writing—1089
LMArena Multi-Turn—1013

Frequently asked questions

Is Codestral better than Falcon-180B?

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Codestral and Falcon-180B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codestral has 7 scored results on Noometry and Falcon-180B has 16.

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