Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs Mistral
Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation Institute
Mistral AISummary
- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and Mistral in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral leads 37.0 to 29.1.
- Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | Mistral | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 29.9 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 16 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mistral: 33.8 (#250)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1162 |
Reasoning Mistral leads
Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Mistral: 22.2 (#200)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1149 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | — |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mistral: 22.3 (#278)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | — | 7.2% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1180 |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mistral: 16.6 (#288)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | — | 27.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 30.3% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1125 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multilingual Mistral leads
Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Mistral: 32.8 (#254)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1129 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1109 |
| LMArena French | — | 1180 |
| LMArena German | — | 1155 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1013 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1032 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1168 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1143 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Mistral: 52.6 (#288)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1152 |
| IFEval | — | 56.8% |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mistral: 35.0 (#245)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1153 |
Writing & Preference Mistral leads
Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Mistral: 37.0 (#260)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1165 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1158 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1147 |
| WildBench | — | 66% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than Mistral?
Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Mistral share?
6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Mistral has 22.