Model comparison

Falcon-40B vs Mistral Medium

Mistral Medium has enough public results to be ranked (#218); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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Falcon-40B and Mistral Medium specifications
Falcon-40BMistral Medium
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteMistral AI
Noometry Index—36.3
Released2023-03-152023-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.50
Output $ / M tokens—$7.50
Results tracked1236

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BMistral Medium
FrontierCode—8%
SciCode—40.2%
WeirdML—43.7%
LMArena Coding—1434
ALE-Bench—763.98

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BMistral Medium
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.7%

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BMistral Medium
Kagi LLM Benchmark—50%
CritPt—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1426
DTBench—75.5%
LMCA—26.1%
Surface Evolver Bench—26.9%
BIG-Bench Hard37.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index104.45—
HellaSwag85.3%—
LAMBADA77.3%—
PIQA83%—
WinoGrande76.9%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BMistral Medium
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—32.2%
ProofBench—9%
LMArena Math—1408
MATH Level 5—81.6%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.3%
GSM8K33.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BMistral Medium
GPQA Diamond—59.5%
Humanity's Last Exam—4.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—22.7%
LMArena Expert—1408
ARC (AI2) Challenge61.9%—
BoolQ83.1%—
MMLU56.9%—
OpenBookQA56.6%—
TriviaQA79.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BMistral Medium
LMArena Vision—1172

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BMistral Medium
LMArena Non-English—1408
LMArena Chinese—1447
LMArena French—1459
LMArena German—1432
LMArena Japanese—1378
LMArena Korean—1380
LMArena Russian—1411
LMArena Spanish—1433

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BMistral Medium
LMArena Instruction Following—1398

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BMistral Medium
LMArena Longer Query—1406

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BMistral Medium
LMArena Text—1424
LMArena Creative Writing—1391
Short-Story Creative Writing—77.3%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1418

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-40B better than Mistral Medium?

Mistral Medium has enough public results to be ranked (#218); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Mistral Medium share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.

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