Model comparison

Codestral vs Falcon-40B

Codestral has enough public results to be ranked (#290); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • Falcon-40B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Codestral and Falcon-40B specifications
CodestralFalcon-40B
ProviderMistral AITechnology Innovation Institute
Noometry Index30.6—
Released2024-05-292023-03-15
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window256K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.30—
Output $ / M tokens$0.90—
Results tracked712

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Codestral: 27.3 (#321), Falcon-40B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralFalcon-40B
Aider Polyglot11.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct41.8%—
BigCodeBench Complete52.5%—
ALE-Bench137.78—
HumanEval+73.8%—
MBPP+61.9%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Codestral: 19.8 (#251), Falcon-40B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralFalcon-40B
Kagi LLM Benchmark32.5%—
BIG-Bench Hard—37.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—104.45
HellaSwag—85.3%
LAMBADA—77.3%
PIQA—83%
WinoGrande—76.9%

Math Not comparable

Codestral: —, Falcon-40B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralFalcon-40B
GSM8K—33.8%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codestral: —, Falcon-40B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralFalcon-40B
ARC (AI2) Challenge—61.9%
BoolQ—83.1%
MMLU—56.9%
OpenBookQA—56.6%
TriviaQA—79.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Codestral better than Falcon-40B?

Codestral has enough public results to be ranked (#290); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Codestral and Falcon-40B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codestral has 7 scored results on Noometry and Falcon-40B has 12.

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