Model comparison

Falcon-40B vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#291); 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 Qwen2.5 32B Instruct specifications
Falcon-40BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index—29.7
Released2023-03-152024-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked127

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 38.1 (#165)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct—45%
BigCodeBench Complete—52.3%

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 18.5 (#262)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
Epoch Capabilities Index104.04128.52
Chess Puzzles—0%
BIG-Bench Hard37.1%—
HellaSwag85.3%—
LAMBADA77.3%—
PIQA83%—
WinoGrande76.9%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 15.3 (#289)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—7.4%
MATH Level 5—56.1%
GSM8K33.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 24.9 (#259)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
GPQA Diamond—46.1%
ARC (AI2) Challenge61.9%—
BoolQ83.1%—
MMLU56.9%—
OpenBookQA56.6%—
TriviaQA79.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-40B better than Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#291); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has 7.

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