Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Falcon-7B

Claude Sonnet 5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#10); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
  • Falcon-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Falcon-7B specifications
Claude Sonnet 5.5Falcon-7B
ProviderAnthropicTechnology Innovation Institute
Noometry Index61.9—
Released2026-09-282023-04-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked3212

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 67.3 (#6), Falcon-7B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Falcon-7B
FrontierCode52.1%—
CursorBench55.5%—
LMArena WebDev1774—
FrontierSWE61.9%—
SciCode61%—
LMArena Coding1513—
ALE-Bench1,819—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 45.0 (#16), Falcon-7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Falcon-7B
APEX-Agents75.5%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 54.0 (#28), Falcon-7B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Falcon-7B
Epoch Capabilities Index165.0395.1
NYT Connections (extended)80.5%—
CritPt31.4%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1495—
Mystery Game Puzzles65%—
BIG-Bench Hard—28.8%
HellaSwag—78.1%
LAMBADA—74.9%
PIQA—80.3%
WinoGrande—67.2%

Math Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 87.9 (#6), Falcon-7B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Falcon-7B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)88.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 480.5%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench100%—
LMArena Math1510—
FrontierMath Erdős2.9%—
GSM8K—6.8%

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#12), Falcon-7B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Falcon-7B
GPQA Diamond95.6%—
SimpleQA Verified46.5%—
LMArena Expert1540—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—47.9%
BoolQ—75.3%
MMLU—35%
OpenBookQA—51.6%
TriviaQA—64.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 51.5 (#6), Falcon-7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Falcon-7B
LMArena Vision1289—
Furniture Assembly75%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 55.3 (#30), Falcon-7B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Falcon-7B
LMArena Non-English1452—
LMArena Chinese1522—
LMArena Russian1451—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 78.3 (#11), Falcon-7B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Falcon-7B
LMArena Instruction Following1495—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 45.9 (#28), Falcon-7B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Falcon-7B
LMArena Longer Query1498—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#40), Falcon-7B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Falcon-7B
LMArena Text1471—
LMArena Creative Writing1465—
LMArena Multi-Turn1474—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 better than Falcon-7B?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#10); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Falcon-7B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5.5 has 32 scored results on Noometry and Falcon-7B has 12.

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