# Falcon-40B vs Mistral 7B

> Mistral 7B has enough public results to be ranked (#351); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-40b-vs-mistral-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 11

## Summary

- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both.

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-40B | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | — | 23.0 |
| Rank | — | 351 |
| Context | — | 8K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Falcon-40B: —
- Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 19.5% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1082 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 36% |
| MBPP+ | — | 42.1% |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-40B: —
- Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.1% | 56.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.45 | 112.21 |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | 81% |
| PIQA | 83% | 83% |
| WinoGrande | 76.9% | 75.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1067 |
| DTBench | — | 42.5% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 47.1% |
| LAMBADA | 77.3% | — |

## Math

- Falcon-40B: —
- Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 33.8% | 54.4% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 0.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1085 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 3.7% |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-40B: —
- Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 61.9% | 78.6% |
| BoolQ | 83.1% | 87.4% |
| MMLU | 56.9% | 62.5% |
| OpenBookQA | 56.6% | 79.8% |
| TriviaQA | 79.9% | 75.2% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 15.2% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1036 |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-40B: —
- Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1009 |
| LMArena French | — | 1037 |
| LMArena German | — | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 878 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1018 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1026 |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-40B: —
- Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1060 |

## Long Context

- Falcon-40B: —
- Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1060 |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-40B: —
- Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1062 |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-40B better than Mistral 7B?

Mistral 7B has enough public results to be ranked (#351); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Mistral 7B share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.