Model comparison

Falcon-40B vs Llama 3.2 1B

Llama 3.2 1B has enough public results to be ranked (#354); 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.

Side by side

Falcon-40B and Llama 3.2 1B specifications
Falcon-40BLlama 3.2 1B
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteMeta
Noometry Index—20.1
Released2023-03-152024-09-24
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—60K
Max output—54K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.027
Output $ / M tokens—$0.20
Results tracked1222

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3.2 1B: 21.1 (#338)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 3.2 1B
BigCodeBench Instruct—8.2%
LMArena Coding—1070
BigCodeBench Complete—11.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3.2 1B: 14.6 (#150)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 3.2 1B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—10.8%
BALROG—6.6%

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3.2 1B: 16.2 (#308)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 3.2 1B
Epoch Capabilities Index104.45101.99
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1044
BIG-Bench Hard37.1%—
HellaSwag85.3%—
LAMBADA77.3%—
PIQA83%—
WinoGrande76.9%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3.2 1B: 10.4 (#313)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 3.2 1B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—0.6%
LMArena Math—1086
GSM8K33.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3.2 1B: 7.2 (#312)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 3.2 1B
GPQA Diamond—23.9%
LMArena Expert—1007
ARC (AI2) Challenge61.9%—
BoolQ83.1%—
MMLU56.9%—
OpenBookQA56.6%—
TriviaQA79.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3.2 1B: 23.8 (#292)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Non-English—973
LMArena Chinese—959
LMArena German—1014
LMArena Russian—941

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3.2 1B: 52.4 (#290)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Instruction Following—1031

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3.2 1B: 31.9 (#274)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Longer Query—1050

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3.2 1B: 21.3 (#310)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Text—1055
LMArena Creative Writing—1033
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—200
LMArena Multi-Turn—1030

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-40B better than Llama 3.2 1B?

Llama 3.2 1B has enough public results to be ranked (#354); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Llama 3.2 1B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 1B has 22.

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