# Falcon-40B vs Mistral Medium 3.1

> Mistral Medium 3.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#266); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-40b-vs-mistral-medium-3-1
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- Falcon-40B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-40B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | — | 31.9 |
| Rank | — | 266 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.40 |
| Output $/M | — | $2 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-40B: —
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 10.6 (#341)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 6.5% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 20.3% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.45 | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 77.3% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 76.9% | — |

## Math

- Falcon-40B: —
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 33.8% | — |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-40B: —
- Mistral Medium 3.1: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 61.9% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.1% | — |
| MMLU | 56.9% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.9% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-40B: —
- Mistral Medium 3.1: 55.5 (#145)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Mistral Medium 3.1 |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1476 |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-40B better than Mistral Medium 3.1?

Mistral Medium 3.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#266); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Mistral Medium 3.1 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.1 has 3.