Model comparison

Falcon-7B vs Mistral Small

Mistral Small has enough public results to be ranked (#243); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.

Side by side

Falcon-7B and Mistral Small specifications
Falcon-7BMistral Small
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteMistral AI
Noometry Index—33.4
Released2023-04-242024-02-26
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—256K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.15
Output $ / M tokens—$0.60
Results tracked1239

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BMistral Small
SciCode—26.5%
BigCodeBench Instruct—36.1%
LiveBench Coding—36.2%
LMArena Coding—1362
BigCodeBench Complete—46.6%
ALE-Bench—497.62

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BMistral Small
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.1%

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BMistral Small
Kagi LLM Benchmark—37.8%
CritPt—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—44.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1335
DTBench—70.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis—53.7%
LMCA—20.6%
BIG-Bench Hard28.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index95.1—
HellaSwag78.1%—
LAMBADA74.9%—
LiveBench—44%
PIQA80.3%—
WinoGrande67.2%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BMistral Small
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—5.8%
LiveBench Math—39.9%
LMArena Math—1341
MATH Level 5—46.8%
GSM8K6.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BMistral Small
MMLU35%68.7%
GPQA Diamond—47.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.1%
LMArena Expert—1291
ARC (AI2) Challenge47.9%—
BoolQ75.3%—
OpenBookQA51.6%—
TriviaQA64.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BMistral Small
LMArena Vision—1142

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BMistral Small
LMArena Non-English—1315
LMArena Chinese—1340
LMArena French—1337
LMArena German—1340
LMArena Japanese—1275
LMArena Korean—1259
LMArena Russian—1324
LMArena Spanish—1346

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BMistral Small
LiveBench Instruction Following—63.7%
LMArena Instruction Following—1310

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BMistral Small
LMArena Longer Query—1327

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BMistral Small
LMArena Text—1338
LMArena Creative Writing—1305
LMArena Multi-Turn—1344
LiveBench Language—30.5%

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-7B better than Mistral Small?

Mistral Small has enough public results to be ranked (#243); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-7B and Mistral Small share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon-7B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small has 39.

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