Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs Mistral Small 3
Falcon-180B and Mistral Small 3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.8 vs 30.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation Institute
Mistral AISummary
- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Small 3 in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Mistral Small 3 leads 37.5 to 25.3.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | Mistral Small 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 31.8 | 30.9 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | 2025-01-30 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 33K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.05 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.08 |
| Results tracked | 16 | 24 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mistral Small 3: 36.0 (#203)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45.3% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1246 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 50.4% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Falcon-180B: 18.3 (#266), Mistral Small 3: 18.2 (#269)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1233 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.89 | 127.06 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mistral Small 3: 15.3 (#290)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 6.7% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1240 |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mistral Small 3: 25.0 (#258)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 25.2% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1202 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multilingual Mistral Small 3 leads
Falcon-180B: 25.3 (#281), Mistral Small 3: 37.5 (#231)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1198 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1204 |
| LMArena French | — | 1202 |
| LMArena German | — | 1211 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1111 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1188 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1216 |
Instruction Following Mistral Small 3 leads
Falcon-180B: 53.6 (#281), Mistral Small 3: 63.9 (#224)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1214 |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Mistral Small 3: 37.8 (#206)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1246 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3 leads
Falcon-180B: 29.3 (#290), Mistral Small 3: 32.4 (#275)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1234 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1195 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1217 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 707 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than Mistral Small 3?
Falcon-180B and Mistral Small 3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.8 vs 30.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Mistral Small 3 share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3 has 24.