Model comparison

Falcon-40B vs GPT-5.6 Terra

GPT-5.6 Terra has enough public results to be ranked (#17); 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-5.6 Terra specifications
Falcon-40BGPT-5.6 Terra
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteOpenAI
Noometry Index—59.2
Released2023-03-152026-07-09
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$12
Results tracked1252

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5.6 Terra: 57.7 (#19)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-5.6 Terra
DeepSWE—69.6%
FrontierCode—41.3%
CursorBench—41.3%
LMArena WebDev—1522
SciCode—55%
WeirdML—78.3%
LMArena Coding—1484
ALE-Bench—1,951

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5.6 Terra: 40.1 (#25)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-5.6 Terra
APEX-Agents—58.2%
BALROG—53.2%
GDP.pdf—24.7%
Vending-Bench 2—7,343

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5.6 Terra: 60.7 (#21)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-5.6 Terra
Epoch Capabilities Index104.45159.62
ARC-AGI-2—83.9%
SimpleBench—48.9%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—51.3%
NYT Connections (extended)—78.4%
ARC-AGI-1—96.5%
CritPt—30%
Chess Puzzles—54%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1468
Mystery Game Puzzles—35%
DTBench—93.3%
LMCA—55%
Surface Evolver Bench—83.8%
BIG-Bench Hard37.1%—
HellaSwag85.3%—
LAMBADA77.3%—
PIQA83%—
WinoGrande76.9%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5.6 Terra: 81.6 (#12)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-5.6 Terra
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—86%
FrontierMath Tier 4—70.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—99.7%
ProofBench—74%
LMArena Math—1466
GSM8K33.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5.6 Terra: 61.2 (#30)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-5.6 Terra
GPQA Diamond—93.3%
SimpleQA Verified—43.2%
LMArena Expert—1492
ARC (AI2) Challenge61.9%—
BoolQ83.1%—
MMLU56.9%—
OpenBookQA56.6%—
TriviaQA79.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5.6 Terra: 47.3 (#11)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-5.6 Terra
LMArena Vision—1271
Blueprint-Bench 2—30.8%
Furniture Assembly—54.2%
LMArena Document—1472

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5.6 Terra: 54.4 (#44)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-5.6 Terra
LMArena Non-English—1439
LMArena Chinese—1513
LMArena French—1471
LMArena German—1460
LMArena Japanese—1457
LMArena Korean—1425
LMArena Russian—1450
LMArena Spanish—1448

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5.6 Terra: 76.4 (#40)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-5.6 Terra
LMArena Instruction Following—1454

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5.6 Terra: 44.4 (#68)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-5.6 Terra
LMArena Longer Query—1451

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5.6 Terra: 70.2 (#23)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-5.6 Terra
LMArena Text—1447
LMArena Creative Writing—1410
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1855
EQ-Bench 4—1234
LMArena Multi-Turn—1449

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-40B better than GPT-5.6 Terra?

GPT-5.6 Terra has enough public results to be ranked (#17); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and GPT-5.6 Terra share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.6 Terra has 52.

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