Model comparison
Falcon-40B vs GPT-5.6 Luna
GPT-5.6 Luna has enough public results to be ranked (#24); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation InstituteSummary
- 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 | GPT-5.6 Luna | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | — | 54.7 |
| Released | 2023-03-15 | 2026-07-09 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1.05M |
| Max output | — | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.20 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 12 | 51 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5.6 Luna: 53.9 (#25)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSWE | — | 67.2% |
| FrontierCode | — | 39.8% |
| CursorBench | — | 35.9% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1517 |
| SciCode | — | 53.6% |
| WeirdML | — | 60.9% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1466 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 1,667 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5.6 Luna: 35.3 (#37)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 45.6% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 22.7% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 4,095 |
Reasoning Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5.6 Luna: 47.5 (#38)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.04 | 156.32 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 59.5% |
| SimpleBench | — | 46.8% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 49.1% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 69.4% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 88% |
| CritPt | — | 20.6% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 40% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1452 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 21% |
| DTBench | — | 89.1% |
| LMCA | — | 48.5% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 61.9% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 77.3% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 76.9% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5.6 Luna: 77.5 (#12)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 82.1% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 61% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 98.3% |
| ProofBench | — | 60% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1455 |
| GSM8K | 33.8% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5.6 Luna: 58.6 (#31)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 91.6% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 41% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1479 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 61.9% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.1% | — |
| MMLU | 56.9% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5.6 Luna: 43.0 (#22)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1259 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 22.6% |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 42.5% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1457 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5.6 Luna: 53.0 (#73)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1418 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1469 |
| LMArena French | — | 1457 |
| LMArena German | — | 1459 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1416 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1414 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1428 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1445 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5.6 Luna: 76.0 (#48)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1440 |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5.6 Luna: 43.9 (#78)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1437 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5.6 Luna: 68.3 (#27)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1432 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1397 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1829 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1156 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1433 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-40B better than GPT-5.6 Luna?
GPT-5.6 Luna has enough public results to be ranked (#24); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and GPT-5.6 Luna share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.6 Luna has 51.