# Falcon-40B vs Mistral Small 3.2

> Mistral Small 3.2 has enough public results to be ranked (#280); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-40b-vs-mistral-small-3-2
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-40B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | — | 31.2 |
| Rank | — | 280 |
| Context | — | 256K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.0938 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-40B: —
- Mistral Small 3.2: 18.1 (#287)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.45 | 131.74 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 40.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 77.3% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 76.9% | — |

## Math

- Falcon-40B: —
- Mistral Small 3.2: 26.3 (#260)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 30.3% |
| GSM8K | 33.8% | — |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-40B: —
- Mistral Small 3.2: 26.7 (#256)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 49.1% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 61.9% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.1% | — |
| MMLU | 56.9% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.9% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-40B: —
- Mistral Small 3.2: 45.0 (#224)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Mistral Small 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1255 |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-40B better than Mistral Small 3.2?

Mistral Small 3.2 has enough public results to be ranked (#280); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Mistral Small 3.2 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.