Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs Mixtral 8x22B
Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation Institute
Mistral AISummary
- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 4 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mixtral 8x22B leads 36.9 to 29.1.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | Mixtral 8x22B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 27.1 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | 2024-04-17 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 64K |
| Max output | — | 64K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $6 |
| Results tracked | 16 | 34 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | — | 3.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 40.6% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1166 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 50.2% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 72% |
| MBPP+ | — | 64.3% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1150 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | 122.03 |
| DTBench | — | 55.1% |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | — | 16.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1184 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 24.2% |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 70.6% | 77.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 34.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 46% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 33.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1113 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multilingual Mixtral 8x22B leads
Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1128 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1116 |
| LMArena French | — | 1166 |
| LMArena German | — | 1141 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1037 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1057 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1158 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1151 |
Instruction Following Mixtral 8x22B leads
Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1147 |
| IFEval | — | 72.4% |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1144 |
Writing & Preference Mixtral 8x22B leads
Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1162 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1141 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1130 |
| WildBench | — | 71.1% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than Mixtral 8x22B?
Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Mixtral 8x22B share?
8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.