Model comparison

Falcon-40B vs Llama 4 Maverick

Llama 4 Maverick has enough public results to be ranked (#282); 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 4 Maverick specifications
Falcon-40BLlama 4 Maverick
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteMeta
Noometry Index—30.9
Released2023-03-152025-04-05
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.19
Output $ / M tokens—$0.65
Results tracked1254

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 4 Maverick
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21%
Aider Polyglot—15.6%
SciCode—33.1%
WeirdML—24.5%
BigCodeBench Instruct—49.7%
LMArena Coding—1302
BigCodeBench Complete—61.4%
ALE-Bench—172.97

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 4 Maverick
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.3%

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 4 Maverick
Epoch Capabilities Index104.45132.2
ARC-AGI-2—0%
SimpleBench—27.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—55.9%
NYT Connections (extended)—8%
ARC-AGI-1—4.4%
CritPt—0%
EnigmaEval—0.6%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1281
DTBench—61.9%
LMCA—15.9%
BIG-Bench Hard37.1%—
ForecastBench—57.5
HellaSwag85.3%—
LAMBADA77.3%—
PIQA83%—
WinoGrande76.9%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 4 Maverick
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—20.6%
Omni-MATH—42.2%
LMArena Math—1299
MATH Level 5—73%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.7%
GSM8K33.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 4 Maverick
GPQA Diamond—67%
Humanity's Last Exam—5.7%
MMLU-Pro—81%
Confabulations—22.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.2%
GPQA (HELM)—65%
LMArena Expert—1259
ARC (AI2) Challenge61.9%—
BoolQ83.1%—
MMLU56.9%—
OpenBookQA56.6%—
TriviaQA79.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Vision—1142
GeoBench—52%
SpatialViz-Bench—31.8%

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Non-English—1269
LMArena Chinese—1277
LMArena French—1259
LMArena German—1291
LMArena Japanese—1207
LMArena Korean—1203
LMArena Russian—1286
LMArena Spanish—1293

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 4 Maverick
IFEval—90.8%
LMArena Instruction Following—1267

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 4 Maverick
Fiction.LiveBench—46.2%
LMArena Longer Query—1280

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Text—1287
LMArena Creative Writing—1267
Short-Story Creative Writing—62%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—860
WildBench—80%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1289

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-40B better than Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick has enough public results to be ranked (#282); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Llama 4 Maverick share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.

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