Model comparison
Falcon-40B vs Mistral Small 3.1
Mistral Small 3.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#263); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation Institute
Mistral AISummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
Side by side
| Falcon-40B | Mistral Small 3.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | — | 31.4 |
| Released | 2023-03-15 | 2025-03-17 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 102K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.35 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.56 |
| Results tracked | 12 | 28 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Mistral Small 3.1: 37.7 (#175)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1309 |
Reasoning Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Mistral Small 3.1: 18.9 (#249)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.04 | 127.48 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1278 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 77.3% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 76.9% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Mistral Small 3.1: 13.7 (#295)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 3.9% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 24.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1261 |
| GSM8K | 33.8% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Mistral Small 3.1: 22.6 (#266)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 41.9% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 61% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 39.2% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1258 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 61.9% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.1% | — |
| MMLU | 56.9% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Mistral Small 3.1: 32.6 (#93)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1136 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Mistral Small 3.1: 41.4 (#204)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1255 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1254 |
| LMArena French | — | 1270 |
| LMArena German | — | 1266 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1210 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1206 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1263 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1283 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Mistral Small 3.1: 63.8 (#225)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 75% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1264 |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Mistral Small 3.1: 39.5 (#172)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1300 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Mistral Small 3.1: 37.2 (#254)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1278 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1253 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 761 |
| WildBench | — | 78.8% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1270 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-40B better than Mistral Small 3.1?
Mistral Small 3.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#263); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Mistral Small 3.1 share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.1 has 28.