Model comparison

Falcon-40B vs Llama 3-70B

Llama 3-70B has enough public results to be ranked (#323); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both.

Side by side

Falcon-40B and Llama 3-70B specifications
Falcon-40BLlama 3-70B
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteMeta
Noometry Index—28.8
Released2023-03-152024-04-18
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked1231

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 3-70B
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.6%
LMArena Coding—1206
BigCodeBench Complete—54.5%
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 3-70B
Cybench—5%

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 3-70B
Epoch Capabilities Index104.45122.93
WinoGrande76.9%83.5%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—35.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1195
DTBench—54.2%
BIG-Bench Hard37.1%—
ForecastBench—57.1
HellaSwag85.3%—
LAMBADA77.3%—
PIQA83%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 3-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—4.3%
LMArena Math—1218
MATH Level 5—22.6%
GSM8K33.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 3-70B
MMLU56.9%79.3%
GPQA Diamond—40.6%
LMArena Expert—1149
ARC (AI2) Challenge61.9%—
BoolQ83.1%—
OpenBookQA56.6%—
TriviaQA79.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English—1142
LMArena Chinese—1114
LMArena French—1232
LMArena German—1169
LMArena Japanese—1017
LMArena Korean—1017
LMArena Russian—1159
LMArena Spanish—1241

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following—1194

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query—1174

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Text—1221
LMArena Creative Writing—1210
LMArena Multi-Turn—1223

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-40B better than Llama 3-70B?

Llama 3-70B has enough public results to be ranked (#323); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Llama 3-70B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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