Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs Mistral Small 3.2
Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.8 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation Institute
Mistral AISummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Small 3.2 in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Small 3.2 leads 45.1 to 29.3.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | Mistral Small 3.2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 31.8 | 30.8 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | 2025-06-20 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 256K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.0938 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Results tracked | 16 | 6 |
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Category by category
Reasoning Too close to call
Falcon-180B: 18.3 (#266), Mistral Small 3.2: 17.5 (#282)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.89 | 131.73 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 40.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | — |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mistral Small 3.2: 24.9 (#251)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 30.3% |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mistral Small 3.2: 26.8 (#249)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 49.1% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Falcon-180B: 25.3 (#281), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Falcon-180B: 53.6 (#281), Mistral Small 3.2: —
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | — |
Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3.2 leads
Falcon-180B: 29.3 (#290), Mistral Small 3.2: 45.1 (#219)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1255 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than Mistral Small 3.2?
Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.8 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Mistral Small 3.2 share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.