Model comparison
Claude 2 vs Falcon-40B
Claude 2 has enough public results to be ranked (#346); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation InstituteSummary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both.
- Falcon-40B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 2 | Falcon-40B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Technology Innovation Institute |
| Noometry Index | 25.0 | — |
| Released | 2023-07-11 | 2023-03-15 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 8 | 12 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Falcon-40B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 61.6% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Claude 2: 21.7 (#216), Falcon-40B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.13 | 104.45 |
| DTBench | 51.9% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 37.1% |
| HellaSwag | — | 85.3% |
| LAMBADA | — | 77.3% |
| PIQA | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 76.9% |
Math Not comparable
Claude 2: 9.3 (#320), Falcon-40B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 33.8% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude 2: 16.9 (#287), Falcon-40B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 78.5% | 56.9% |
| TriviaQA | 87.5% | 79.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | 34.7% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 61.9% |
| BoolQ | — | 83.1% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 56.6% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 2 better than Falcon-40B?
Claude 2 has enough public results to be ranked (#346); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and Falcon-40B share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and Falcon-40B has 12.