# Falcon-180B vs Mistral Large 3

> Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-180b-vs-mistral-large-3
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 6

## Summary

- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Large 3 in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Large 3 leads 60.0 to 29.1.

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-180B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 39.1 |
| Rank | 260 | 176 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.75 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Falcon-180B: —
- Mistral Large 3: 34.4 (#237)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1230 |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1448 |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269)
- Mistral Large 3: 15.2 (#319)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1429 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 50.9% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 7.5% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 23% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | — |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |

## Math

- Falcon-180B: —
- Mistral Large 3: 38.7 (#129)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1414 |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-180B: —
- Mistral Large 3: 36.0 (#177)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 14.5% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1421 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |

## Multimodal

- Falcon-180B: —
- Mistral Large 3: 38.2 (#66)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1221 |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286)
- Mistral Large 3: 52.5 (#84)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1413 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1447 |
| LMArena French | — | 1455 |
| LMArena German | — | 1437 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1394 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1384 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1411 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1440 |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286)
- Mistral Large 3: 74.0 (#108)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1403 |

## Long Context

- Falcon-180B: —
- Mistral Large 3: 43.1 (#105)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1413 |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295)
- Mistral Large 3: 60.0 (#101)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1428 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1386 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1429 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1412 |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-180B better than Mistral Large 3?

Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Mistral Large 3 share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large 3 has 24.