Model comparison
Falcon-40B vs Grok-2 (Dec 2024)
Grok-2 (Dec 2024) has enough public results to be ranked (#239); 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 | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | xAI |
| Noometry Index | — | 33.7 |
| Released | 2023-03-15 | 2024-08-13 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 12 | 34 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 33.3 (#258)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | — | 22.2% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 46.4% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1287 |
Reasoning Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 16.9 (#299)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.45 | 130.48 |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.7% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 54.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1272 |
| DTBench | — | 65.2% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 54.5% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 77.3% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 54.3% |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 76.9% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 20.8 (#284)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 11.5% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 54.9% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1283 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 63.5% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.7% |
| GSM8K | 33.8% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 29.8 (#233)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 53.8% |
| Confabulations | — | 20.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1254 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 61.9% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.1% | — |
| MMLU | 56.9% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.9% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 43.1 (#188)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1282 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1289 |
| LMArena French | — | 1318 |
| LMArena German | — | 1287 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1244 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1237 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1286 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1281 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 66.9 (#202)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 69.6% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1270 |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 38.8 (#190)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1276 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 48.6 (#198)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1305 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1284 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 63.6% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1290 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 45.6% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-40B better than Grok-2 (Dec 2024)?
Grok-2 (Dec 2024) has enough public results to be ranked (#239); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) has 34.