Model comparison
Falcon-40B vs Nova 2 Lite
Nova 2 Lite has enough public results to be ranked (#161); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation InstituteSummary
- Falcon-40B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Falcon-40B | Nova 2 Lite | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Amazon |
| Noometry Index | — | 39.0 |
| Released | 2023-03-15 | 2025-12-01 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 64K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2.50 |
| Results tracked | 12 | 19 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Nova 2 Lite: 40.1 (#131)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1386 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Nova 2 Lite: 23.9 (#114)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 27.1% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Nova 2 Lite: 26.4 (#120)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1364 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.04 | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 77.3% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 76.9% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Nova 2 Lite: 34.8 (#154)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1359 |
| GSM8K | 33.8% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Nova 2 Lite: 42.5 (#88)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1360 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 61.9% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.1% | — |
| MMLU | 56.9% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.9% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Nova 2 Lite: 47.3 (#148)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1337 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1364 |
| LMArena French | — | 1381 |
| LMArena German | — | 1343 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1273 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1284 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1343 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1372 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Nova 2 Lite: 70.7 (#156)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1335 |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Nova 2 Lite: 40.6 (#145)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1335 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Nova 2 Lite: 54.1 (#150)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Nova 2 Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1362 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1291 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1338 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-40B better than Nova 2 Lite?
Nova 2 Lite has enough public results to be ranked (#161); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Nova 2 Lite share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Nova 2 Lite has 19.