Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs Mistral Large

Falcon-180B and Mistral Large score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.2 vs 31.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 8 shared benchmarks.

Falcon-180B

Technology Innovation Institute

32.2

Rank #260 Confirmed

Mistral Large

Mistral AI

31.9

Rank #263 Confirmed

Summary

They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Large in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in multilingual, where Mistral Large leads 40.0 to 25.2.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and Mistral Large specifications
	Falcon-180B	Mistral Large
Provider	Technology Innovation Institute	Mistral AI
Noometry Index	32.2	31.9
Released	2023-09-06	2024-02-26
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	—	131K
Max output	—	16K
Input $ / M tokens	—	$2
Output $ / M tokens	—	$6
Results tracked	16	51

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	Mistral Large
SciCode	—	36.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct	—	30%
LiveBench Coding	—	47.1%
LMArena Coding	—	1277
BigCodeBench Complete	—	38.3%
ALE-Bench	—	264.7
HumanEval+	—	62.2%
MBPP+	—	59.5%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	Mistral Large
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	—	38.4%

Reasoning Falcon-180B leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	Mistral Large
LMArena Hard Prompts	1007	1257
Epoch Capabilities Index	112.13	128.52
SimpleBench	—	22.5%
CritPt	—	0%
LiveBench Reasoning	—	43.5%
DTBench	—	65.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis	—	50.1%
LMCA	—	16.7%
ForecastBench	—	57.1
HellaSwag	89%	—
LAMBADA	79.8%	—
LiveBench	—	48.4%
PIQA	84.9%	—
WinoGrande	87.1%	—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	Mistral Large
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	8.5%
Omni-MATH	—	28.1%
LiveBench Math	—	42.5%
LMArena Math	—	1262
MATH Level 5	—	50.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)	—	0.3%
GSM8K	54.4%	—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	Mistral Large
MMLU	70.6%	80%
GPQA Diamond	—	51.3%
MMLU-Pro	—	59.9%
Confabulations	—	21.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	—	4.5%
GPQA (HELM)	—	43.5%
LMArena Expert	—	1232
ARC (AI2) Challenge	67.8%	—
BoolQ	89%	—
OpenBookQA	64.2%	—

Multilingual Mistral Large leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	Mistral Large
LMArena Non-English	1000	1237
LMArena Chinese	—	1240
LMArena French	—	1325
LMArena German	—	1254
LMArena Japanese	—	1188
LMArena Korean	—	1202
LMArena Russian	—	1257
LMArena Spanish	—	1268

Instruction Following Mistral Large leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	Mistral Large
LMArena Instruction Following	1047	1249
LiveBench Instruction Following	—	67.9%
IFEval	—	87.7%

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	Mistral Large
LMArena Longer Query	—	1261

Writing & Preference Mistral Large leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	Mistral Large
LMArena Text	1054	1266
LMArena Creative Writing	1089	1243
LMArena Multi-Turn	1013	1260
Short-Story Creative Writing	—	69%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	—	985
WildBench	—	80.1%
LiveBench Language	—	39.4%

Frequently asked questions

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