Model comparison

Falcon-40B vs Granite 4.0 Micro

Granite 4.0 Micro has enough public results to be ranked (#318); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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Falcon-40B and Granite 4.0 Micro specifications
Falcon-40BGranite 4.0 Micro
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteIBM
Noometry Index—29.0
Released2023-03-152025-10-02
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—118K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.017
Output $ / M tokens—$0.11
Results tracked128

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Category by category

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGranite 4.0 Micro
Chess Puzzles—0%
BIG-Bench Hard37.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index104.45—
HellaSwag85.3%—
LAMBADA77.3%—
PIQA83%—
WinoGrande76.9%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGranite 4.0 Micro
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—2.8%
Omni-MATH—20.9%
GSM8K33.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGranite 4.0 Micro
GPQA Diamond—28.3%
MMLU-Pro—39.5%
GPQA (HELM)—30.7%
ARC (AI2) Challenge61.9%—
BoolQ83.1%—
MMLU56.9%—
OpenBookQA56.6%—
TriviaQA79.9%—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGranite 4.0 Micro
IFEval—84.9%

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGranite 4.0 Micro
WildBench—67%

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-40B better than Granite 4.0 Micro?

Granite 4.0 Micro has enough public results to be ranked (#318); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Granite 4.0 Micro share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 Micro has 8.

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