Model comparison
Falcon-40B vs gpt-oss-20b
gpt-oss-20b has enough public results to be ranked (#255); 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.
Side by side
| Falcon-40B | gpt-oss-20b | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | — | 32.5 |
| Released | 2023-03-15 | 2025-08-05 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.018 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.09 |
| Results tracked | 12 | 34 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, gpt-oss-20b: 37.6 (#192)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 34.4% |
| WeirdML | — | 40.9% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1306 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 566.05 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, gpt-oss-20b: 9.3 (#154)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 3.4% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, gpt-oss-20b: 19.3 (#261)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.45 | 137.82 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 53.2% |
| CritPt | — | 1.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1274 |
| DTBench | — | 68% |
| LMCA | — | 14.5% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 77.3% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 76.9% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, gpt-oss-20b: 39.4 (#103)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 65.3% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 56.5% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1317 |
| GSM8K | 33.8% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, gpt-oss-20b: 34.6 (#195)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 60.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 74% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 59.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1258 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 61.9% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.1% | — |
| MMLU | 56.9% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.9% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, gpt-oss-20b: 42.2 (#197)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1268 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1314 |
| LMArena German | — | 1255 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1244 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1236 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1278 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1267 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, gpt-oss-20b: 61.8 (#240)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 73.2% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1236 |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, gpt-oss-20b: 37.9 (#209)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1250 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, gpt-oss-20b: 35.5 (#265)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1201 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 666 |
| WildBench | — | 73.7% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1268 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-40B better than gpt-oss-20b?
gpt-oss-20b has enough public results to be ranked (#255); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and gpt-oss-20b share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and gpt-oss-20b has 34.