Model comparison
Falcon-40B vs Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#292); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation Institute
GoogleSummary
- Falcon-40B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Falcon-40B | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | |
| Noometry Index | — | 29.7 |
| Released | 2023-03-15 | 2024-10-03 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 12 | 21 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 34.9 (#221)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1218 |
Reasoning Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 19.2 (#242)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1210 |
| DTBench | — | 50% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.04 | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 77.3% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 76.9% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 13.3 (#296)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 4.6% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1207 |
| GSM8K | 33.8% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#285)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 33% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1185 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 61.9% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.1% | — |
| MMLU | 56.9% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 27.6 (#110)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1044 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.6 (#224)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1215 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1231 |
| LMArena French | — | 1233 |
| LMArena German | — | 1206 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1150 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1140 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1236 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1212 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 63.1 (#231)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1199 |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 36.9 (#220)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1219 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 43.0 (#227)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1226 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1218 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1185 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-40B better than Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B?
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#292); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21.