Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs Mistral Small

Mistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 11, 2026. 7 shared benchmarks.

Falcon-180B

Technology Innovation Institute

32.2

Rank #260 Confirmed

Mistral Small

Mistral AI

33.4

Rank #243 Confirmed

Summary

They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and Mistral Small in 4 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Small leads 52.5 to 29.1.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and Mistral Small specifications
	Falcon-180B	Mistral Small
Provider	Technology Innovation Institute	Mistral AI
Noometry Index	32.2	33.4
Released	2023-09-06	2024-02-26
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	—	262K
Max output	—	256K
Input $ / M tokens	—	$0.15
Output $ / M tokens	—	$0.60
Results tracked	16	39

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	Mistral Small
SciCode	—	26.5%
BigCodeBench Instruct	—	36.1%
LiveBench Coding	—	36.2%
LMArena Coding	—	1362
BigCodeBench Complete	—	46.6%
ALE-Bench	—	497.62

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	Mistral Small
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	—	37.1%

Reasoning Too close to call

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	Mistral Small
LMArena Hard Prompts	1007	1335
Kagi LLM Benchmark	—	37.8%
CritPt	—	0%
LiveBench Reasoning	—	44.8%
DTBench	—	70.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis	—	53.7%
LMCA	—	20.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index	112.13	—
HellaSwag	89%	—
LAMBADA	79.8%	—
LiveBench	—	44%
PIQA	84.9%	—
WinoGrande	87.1%	—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	Mistral Small
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	5.8%
LiveBench Math	—	39.9%
LMArena Math	—	1341
MATH Level 5	—	46.8%
GSM8K	54.4%	—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	Mistral Small
MMLU	70.6%	68.7%
GPQA Diamond	—	47.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	—	5.1%
LMArena Expert	—	1291
ARC (AI2) Challenge	67.8%	—
BoolQ	89%	—
OpenBookQA	64.2%	—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	Mistral Small
LMArena Vision	—	1142

Multilingual Mistral Small leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	Mistral Small
LMArena Non-English	1000	1315
LMArena Chinese	—	1340
LMArena French	—	1337
LMArena German	—	1340
LMArena Japanese	—	1275
LMArena Korean	—	1259
LMArena Russian	—	1324
LMArena Spanish	—	1346

Instruction Following Mistral Small leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	Mistral Small
LMArena Instruction Following	1047	1310
LiveBench Instruction Following	—	63.7%

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	Mistral Small
LMArena Longer Query	—	1327

Writing & Preference Mistral Small leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	Mistral Small
LMArena Text	1054	1338
LMArena Creative Writing	1089	1305
LMArena Multi-Turn	1013	1344
LiveBench Language	—	30.5%

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