Model comparison

Falcon 2 11B vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#259); Falcon 2 11B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both.

Side by side

Falcon 2 11B and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct specifications
Falcon 2 11BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index—31.5
Released2024-05-092024-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.40
Output $ / M tokens—$5.60
Results tracked543

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 32.8 (#256)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
WeirdML—16%
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.8%
LMArena Coding—1293
BigCodeBench Complete—55.9%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.0 (#124)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
TheAgentCompany—5.7%
BALROG—16.2%
METR Time Horizons—35.8%

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 21.4 (#197)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
Epoch Capabilities Index109.25129.01
HellaSwag82.9%84.8%
WinoGrande78.3%82.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1271
DTBench—62.9%
LMCA—13.4%
BIG-Bench Hard—79.8%
ForecastBench—57.5
PIQA—82.6%

Math Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 18.1 (#281)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—8.1%
Omni-MATH—33%
LMArena Math—1283
MATH Level 5—63.2%
GSM8K53.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 26.9 (#247)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
MMLU58.4%85.3%
GPQA Diamond—49.1%
MMLU-Pro—63.1%
Confabulations—19.1%
GPQA (HELM)—42.6%
LMArena Expert—1245
ARC (AI2) Challenge—94.5%
TriviaQA—71.9%

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 41.2 (#208)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Non-English—1252
LMArena Chinese—1272
LMArena French—1279
LMArena German—1234
LMArena Japanese—1180
LMArena Korean—1188
LMArena Russian—1264
LMArena Spanish—1255

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 65.7 (#216)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
IFEval—80.6%
LMArena Instruction Following—1254

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 38.9 (#183)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query—1282

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 46.9 (#210)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Text—1269
LMArena Creative Writing—1221
WildBench—80.2%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1272

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon 2 11B better than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#259); Falcon 2 11B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon 2 11B and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon 2 11B has 5 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has 43.

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