Model comparison

Falcon-40B vs GPT-4 Turbo

GPT-4 Turbo has enough public results to be ranked (#281); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both.
  • Falcon-40B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-40B and GPT-4 Turbo specifications
Falcon-40BGPT-4 Turbo
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteOpenAI
Noometry Index—30.3
Released2023-03-152023-11-06
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$10
Output $ / M tokens—$30
Results tracked1236

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-4 Turbo: 33.4 (#247)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-4 Turbo
WeirdML—18%
BigCodeBench Instruct—48.2%
LMArena Coding—1268
BigCodeBench Complete—58.2%
HumanEval+—86.6%
MBPP+—73.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-4 Turbo: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-4 Turbo
METR Time Horizons—36.7%

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-4 Turbo: 14.9 (#311)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-4 Turbo
Epoch Capabilities Index104.04127.25
SimpleBench—25.1%
Chess Puzzles—6%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1251
DTBench—61.6%
LMCA—9.8%
BIG-Bench Hard37.1%—
ForecastBench—59.4
HellaSwag85.3%—
LAMBADA77.3%—
PIQA83%—
WinoGrande76.9%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-4 Turbo: 8.6 (#316)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-4 Turbo
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—0.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—6.7%
LMArena Math—1272
MATH Level 5—46.7%
GSM8K33.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#263)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-4 Turbo
MMLU56.9%81.3%
GPQA Diamond—46.6%
Confabulations—28.4%
LMArena Expert—1223
ARC (AI2) Challenge61.9%—
BoolQ83.1%—
OpenBookQA56.6%—
TriviaQA79.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-4 Turbo: 30.0 (#104)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Vision—1090

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-4 Turbo: 40.7 (#211)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Non-English—1245
LMArena Chinese—1242
LMArena French—1275
LMArena German—1259
LMArena Japanese—1194
LMArena Korean—1187
LMArena Russian—1259
LMArena Spanish—1260

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-4 Turbo: 66.0 (#211)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Instruction Following—1250

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#200)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Longer Query—1254

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-4 Turbo: 47.9 (#201)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Text—1272
LMArena Creative Writing—1269
LMArena Multi-Turn—1267

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-40B better than GPT-4 Turbo?

GPT-4 Turbo has enough public results to be ranked (#281); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and GPT-4 Turbo share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4 Turbo has 36.

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