Model comparison

DeepSeek-V3 vs Falcon-40B

DeepSeek-V3 has enough public results to be ranked (#166); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both.

Side by side

DeepSeek-V3 and Falcon-40B specifications
DeepSeek-V3Falcon-40B
ProviderDeepSeekTechnology Innovation Institute
Noometry Index39.5—
Released2024-12-262023-03-15
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window164K—
Max output164K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.24—
Output $ / M tokens$0.90—
Results tracked6012

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3: 42.3 (#106), Falcon-40B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Falcon-40B
Aider Polyglot55.1%—
SciCode35.8%—
WeirdML36.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct50%—
LiveBench Coding70.9%—
LMArena Coding1368—
BigCodeBench Complete62.2%—
HumanEval+86.6%—
MBPP+73%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3: —, Falcon-40B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Falcon-40B
METR Time Horizons49.6%—

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3: 20.5 (#236), Falcon-40B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Falcon-40B
BIG-Bench Hard87.5%37.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index135.94104.45
HellaSwag88.9%85.3%
PIQA84.7%83%
WinoGrande85.2%76.9%
SimpleBench27.2%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark52.3%—
CritPt0%—
LiveBench Reasoning65.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1365—
DTBench64.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%—
LMCA15.5%—
ForecastBench59.1—
LAMBADA—77.3%
LiveBench66.9%—

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3: 32.1 (#219), Falcon-40B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Falcon-40B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202537.8%—
Omni-MATH40.3%—
LiveBench Math73.5%—
LMArena Math1373—
MATH Level 575.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%—
GSM8K—33.8%

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3: 37.5 (#155), Falcon-40B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Falcon-40B
ARC (AI2) Challenge95.3%61.9%
MMLU87.2%56.9%
TriviaQA82.9%79.9%
GPQA Diamond67.6%—
MMLU-Pro72.3%—
Confabulations26.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—
GPQA (HELM)53.8%—
LMArena Expert1351—
BoolQ—83.1%
OpenBookQA—56.6%

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3: 48.5 (#143), Falcon-40B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Falcon-40B
LMArena Non-English1358—
LMArena Chinese1391—
LMArena French1385—
LMArena German1374—
LMArena Japanese1333—
LMArena Korean1319—
LMArena Russian1373—
LMArena Spanish1358—

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3: 72.8 (#130), Falcon-40B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Falcon-40B
LiveBench Instruction Following81.5%—
IFEval83.2%—
LMArena Instruction Following1345—

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3: 34.0 (#253), Falcon-40B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Falcon-40B
Fiction.LiveBench50%—
LMArena Longer Query1352—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3: 57.4 (#130), Falcon-40B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Falcon-40B
LMArena Text1375—
LMArena Creative Writing1364—
Short-Story Creative Writing77%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1472—
WildBench83%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1389—
LiveBench Language49.1%—

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek-V3 better than Falcon-40B?

DeepSeek-V3 has enough public results to be ranked (#166); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V3 and Falcon-40B share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V3 has 60 scored results on Noometry and Falcon-40B has 12.

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