Model comparison
Falcon-40B vs Ministral 8B
Ministral 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#325); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation Institute
Mistral AISide by side
| Falcon-40B | Ministral 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | — | 28.2 |
| Released | 2023-03-15 | 2024-10-01 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Results tracked | 12 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1202 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 11.1% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1191 |
| DTBench | — | 45.7% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.45 | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 77.3% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 76.9% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1188 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 14.9% |
| GSM8K | 33.8% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 27.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1170 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 61.9% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.1% | — |
| MMLU | 56.9% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.9% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1165 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1193 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1195 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1161 |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1212 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1191 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1175 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1166 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-40B better than Ministral 8B?
Ministral 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#325); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Ministral 8B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.