Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs Mistral Medium
Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 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 0 categories and Mistral Medium in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium leads 60.0 to 29.1.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | Mistral Medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 36.3 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | 2023-12-11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $7.50 |
| Results tracked | 16 | 36 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode | — | 8% |
| SciCode | — | 40.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.7% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1434 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 763.98 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.7% |
Reasoning Mistral Medium leads
Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1426 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 50% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 75.5% |
| LMCA | — | 26.1% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 26.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | — |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 32.2% |
| ProofBench | — | 9% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1408 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 81.6% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 59.5% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 4.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 22.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1408 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1172 |
Multilingual Mistral Medium leads
Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1408 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1447 |
| LMArena French | — | 1459 |
| LMArena German | — | 1432 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1378 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1380 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1411 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1433 |
Instruction Following Mistral Medium leads
Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1398 |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1406 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Medium leads
Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1424 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1391 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1418 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 77.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than Mistral Medium?
Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Mistral Medium share?
6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.