Model comparison
Falcon-40B vs Gemma 3 12B
Gemma 3 12B has enough public results to be ranked (#255); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation Institute
GoogleSummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
Side by side
| Falcon-40B | Gemma 3 12B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | |
| Noometry Index | — | 31.8 |
| Released | 2023-03-15 | 2025-03-12 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.05 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Results tracked | 12 | 24 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 3 12B: 31.2 (#276)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 17.4% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1281 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 3 12B: 25.3 (#101)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 30.4% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 3 12B: 15.2 (#307)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.04 | 123.49 |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1309 |
| DTBench | — | 48.8% |
| LMCA | — | 4.5% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 77.3% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 76.9% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 3 12B: 21.0 (#273)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 16.7% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1307 |
| GSM8K | 33.8% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 3 12B: 26.5 (#250)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 39.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1248 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 61.9% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.1% | — |
| MMLU | 56.9% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 3 12B: —
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| MindCube | — | 46.7% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 3 12B: 45.9 (#160)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1318 |
| LMArena German | — | 1370 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1335 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 3 12B: 68.8 (#179)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1299 |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 3 12B: 40.0 (#157)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1317 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Gemma 3 12B: 47.7 (#205)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1334 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1331 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1126 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1334 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-40B better than Gemma 3 12B?
Gemma 3 12B has enough public results to be ranked (#255); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Gemma 3 12B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 12B has 24.