Model comparison

Falcon-40B vs Llama 4 Scout

Llama 4 Scout has enough public results to be ranked (#330); 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 Scout specifications
Falcon-40BLlama 4 Scout
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteMeta
Noometry Index—27.7
Released2023-03-152025-04-05
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.30
Results tracked1243

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 4 Scout: 20.2 (#339)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 4 Scout
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—9.1%
SciCode—17%
LMArena Coding—1286
BigCodeBench Complete—43.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 4 Scout: 24.6 (#119)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 4 Scout
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.1%

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 4 Scout: 9.1 (#345)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 4 Scout
Epoch Capabilities Index104.45129.64
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—36.9%
ARC-AGI-1—0.5%
CritPt—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1266
DTBench—57.9%
LMCA—12%
BIG-Bench Hard37.1%—
ForecastBench—57.5
HellaSwag85.3%—
LAMBADA77.3%—
PIQA83%—
WinoGrande76.9%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 4 Scout: 19.6 (#286)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 4 Scout
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—7.8%
Omni-MATH—37.3%
LMArena Math—1287
MATH Level 5—62.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0%
GSM8K33.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 4 Scout: 31.9 (#217)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 4 Scout
GPQA Diamond—51.8%
MMLU-Pro—74.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.7%
GPQA (HELM)—50.7%
LMArena Expert—1235
ARC (AI2) Challenge61.9%—
BoolQ83.1%—
MMLU56.9%—
OpenBookQA56.6%—
TriviaQA79.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 4 Scout: 32.2 (#102)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Vision—1118
SpatialViz-Bench—34.2%

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 4 Scout: 41.0 (#212)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Non-English—1252
LMArena Chinese—1255
LMArena French—1282
LMArena German—1272
LMArena Japanese—1206
LMArena Korean—1207
LMArena Russian—1263
LMArena Spanish—1278

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 4 Scout: 65.8 (#217)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 4 Scout
IFEval—81.8%
LMArena Instruction Following—1248

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 4 Scout: 27.5 (#294)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 4 Scout
Fiction.LiveBench—36%
LMArena Longer Query—1265

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Llama 4 Scout: 37.0 (#261)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Text—1279
LMArena Creative Writing—1249
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—783
WildBench—78%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1280

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-40B better than Llama 4 Scout?

Llama 4 Scout has enough public results to be ranked (#330); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Scout has 43.

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