Model comparison
Falcon-40B vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#320); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation Institute
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both.
Side by side
| Falcon-40B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | — | 29.0 |
| Released | 2023-03-15 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.17 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 12 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 36.5 (#208)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.1% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.8 (#124)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 7.8% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.8 (#322)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.45 | 118.51 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 47.7% |
| LMCA | — | 6.4% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 77.3% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 76.9% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 12.6 (#306)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 29.4% |
| GSM8K | 33.8% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#286)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 56.9% | 72.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 35.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 53.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 34.1% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 61.9% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.1% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.9% | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.2 (#231)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 74.1% |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#195)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| WildBench | — | 73.1% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-40B better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#320); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.