Model comparison

Falcon-40B vs GPT-5 Nano

GPT-5 Nano has enough public results to be ranked (#241); 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 Nano specifications
Falcon-40BGPT-5 Nano
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteOpenAI
Noometry Index—33.5
Released2023-03-152025-08-07
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.05
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked1249

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5 Nano: 33.6 (#254)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-5 Nano
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—34.8%
WeirdML—38.1%
LMArena Coding—1351
ALE-Bench—718.67

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5 Nano: 25.8 (#106)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-5 Nano
Terminal-Bench—21.8%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—51.5%

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5 Nano: 16.3 (#306)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-5 Nano
Epoch Capabilities Index104.45139.38
ARC-AGI-2—2.6%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—62.2%
ARC-AGI-1—20.7%
Chess Puzzles—27%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1328
Mystery Game Puzzles—9%
DTBench—62.7%
LMCA—7.9%
BIG-Bench Hard37.1%—
ForecastBench—59.1
HellaSwag85.3%—
LAMBADA77.3%—
PIQA83%—
WinoGrande76.9%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5 Nano: 29.4 (#241)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-5 Nano
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—20%
FrontierMath Tier 4—2.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—81.1%
ProofBench—12%
Omni-MATH—54.6%
LMArena Math—1317
MATH Level 5—95.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—8.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%
GSM8K33.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5 Nano: 35.9 (#178)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-5 Nano
GPQA Diamond—69.4%
SimpleQA Verified—11.7%
MMLU-Pro—77.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.5%
GPQA (HELM)—67.9%
LMArena Expert—1321
ARC (AI2) Challenge61.9%—
BoolQ83.1%—
MMLU56.9%—
OpenBookQA56.6%—
TriviaQA79.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5 Nano: 31.3 (#108)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Vision—1159
VPCT—37.2%

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5 Nano: 45.3 (#172)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Non-English—1313
LMArena Chinese—1356
LMArena German—1327
LMArena Japanese—1226
LMArena Korean—1269
LMArena Russian—1296
LMArena Spanish—1360

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5 Nano: 75.0 (#79)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-5 Nano
IFEval—93.2%
LMArena Instruction Following—1306

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5 Nano: 31.3 (#281)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-5 Nano
Fiction.LiveBench—44.4%
LMArena Longer Query—1312

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GPT-5 Nano: 39.1 (#249)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Text—1320
LMArena Creative Writing—1249
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—705
WildBench—80.6%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1311

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-40B better than GPT-5 Nano?

GPT-5 Nano has enough public results to be ranked (#241); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and GPT-5 Nano share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5 Nano has 49.

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