Model comparison

Falcon-40B vs Llama 3.2 3B

Llama 3.2 3B has enough public results to be ranked (#321); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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Falcon-40B and Llama 3.2 3B specifications
Falcon-40BLlama 3.2 3B
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteMeta
Noometry Index—28.9
Released2023-03-152024-09-24
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—118K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.05
Output $ / M tokens—$0.33
Results tracked1218

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3.2 3B: 27.6 (#319)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 3.2 3B
BigCodeBench Instruct—23.4%
LMArena Coding—1098
BigCodeBench Complete—28.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3.2 3B: 20.1 (#143)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 3.2 3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—21.9%
BALROG—10.1%

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3.2 3B: 21.0 (#228)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Hard Prompts—1095
BIG-Bench Hard37.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index104.45—
HellaSwag85.3%—
LAMBADA77.3%—
PIQA83%—
WinoGrande76.9%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3.2 3B: 32.4 (#214)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Math—1126
GSM8K33.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3.2 3B: 29.7 (#235)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Expert—1090
ARC (AI2) Challenge61.9%—
BoolQ83.1%—
MMLU56.9%—
OpenBookQA56.6%—
TriviaQA79.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3.2 3B: 26.2 (#281)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Non-English—1019
LMArena Chinese—1017
LMArena German—1056
LMArena Russian—949

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3.2 3B: 56.0 (#275)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Instruction Following—1089

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3.2 3B: 33.4 (#261)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Longer Query—1100

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3.2 3B: 24.7 (#307)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Text—1110
LMArena Creative Writing—1094
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—595
LMArena Multi-Turn—1105

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-40B better than Llama 3.2 3B?

Llama 3.2 3B has enough public results to be ranked (#321); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Llama 3.2 3B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 3B has 18.

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