Model comparison

Falcon-40B vs GPT-4.1 nano

GPT-4.1 nano has enough public results to be ranked (#322); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
  • Falcon-40B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-40B and GPT-4.1 nano specifications
Falcon-40BGPT-4.1 nano
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteOpenAI
Noometry Index—27.7
Released2023-03-152025-04-14
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked1238

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 23.8 (#325)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-4.1 nano
Aider Polyglot—8.9%
SciCode—25.9%
WeirdML—19%
LMArena Coding—1306

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 26.3 (#98)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-4.1 nano
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—33%

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 8.6 (#344)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-4.1 nano
Epoch Capabilities Index104.04129.62
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—33.3%
ARC-AGI-1—0%
CritPt—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1286
DTBench—52.5%
LMCA—5.5%
BIG-Bench Hard37.1%—
HellaSwag85.3%—
LAMBADA77.3%—
PIQA83%—
WinoGrande76.9%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 25.5 (#246)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-4.1 nano
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—28.9%
Omni-MATH—36.7%
LMArena Math—1274
MATH Level 5—70%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1%
GSM8K33.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 21.8 (#268)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-4.1 nano
GPQA Diamond—48.9%
SimpleQA Verified—6%
MMLU-Pro—55%
GPQA (HELM)—50.7%
LMArena Expert—1272
ARC (AI2) Challenge61.9%—
BoolQ83.1%—
MMLU56.9%—
OpenBookQA56.6%—
TriviaQA79.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 28.6 (#108)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Vision—1063

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 41.8 (#200)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Non-English—1260
LMArena Chinese—1270
LMArena German—1288
LMArena Japanese—1199
LMArena Russian—1261

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 68.0 (#188)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-4.1 nano
IFEval—84.3%
LMArena Instruction Following—1267

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 23.7 (#291)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-4.1 nano
Fiction.LiveBench—25%
LMArena Longer Query—1283

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 40.7 (#238)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Text—1285
LMArena Creative Writing—1260
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—946
WildBench—81.2%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1277

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-40B better than GPT-4.1 nano?

GPT-4.1 nano has enough public results to be ranked (#322); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and GPT-4.1 nano share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 nano has 38.

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