Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs Mistral Large 3
Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 32.2 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 Large 3 in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Large 3 leads 60.0 to 29.1.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | Mistral Large 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 39.1 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | 2025-12-02 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.75 |
| Results tracked | 16 | 24 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mistral Large 3: 34.4 (#237)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1230 |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1448 |
Reasoning Falcon-180B leads
Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Mistral Large 3: 15.2 (#319)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1429 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 50.9% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 7.5% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 23% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | — |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mistral Large 3: 38.7 (#129)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1414 |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mistral Large 3: 36.0 (#177)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 14.5% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1421 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mistral Large 3: 38.2 (#66)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1221 |
Multilingual Mistral Large 3 leads
Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Mistral Large 3: 52.5 (#84)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1413 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1447 |
| LMArena French | — | 1455 |
| LMArena German | — | 1437 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1394 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1384 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1411 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1440 |
Instruction Following Mistral Large 3 leads
Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Mistral Large 3: 74.0 (#108)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1403 |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mistral Large 3: 43.1 (#105)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1413 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Large 3 leads
Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Mistral Large 3: 60.0 (#101)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1428 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1386 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1429 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1412 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than Mistral Large 3?
Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Mistral Large 3 share?
6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large 3 has 24.