Model comparison

Falcon-40B vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#245); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both.

Side by side

Falcon-40B and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B specifications
Falcon-40BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index—33.4
Released2023-03-152024-09-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—33K
Max output—29K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.66
Output $ / M tokens—$1
Results tracked1231

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—9%
Aider Polyglot—16.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct—49%
LiveBench Coding—56.9%
LMArena Coding—1276
BigCodeBench Complete—58%
HumanEval+—87.2%
MBPP+—77%

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
Epoch Capabilities Index104.45119.49
HellaSwag85.3%83%
WinoGrande76.9%80.8%
LiveBench Reasoning—42.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1251
LiveBench Data Analysis—49.9%
BIG-Bench Hard37.1%—
LAMBADA77.3%—
LiveBench—46.2%
PIQA83%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
GSM8K33.8%93%
LiveBench Math—46.6%
LMArena Math—1251

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
ARC (AI2) Challenge61.9%70.5%
MMLU56.9%79.1%
LMArena Expert—1221
BoolQ83.1%—
OpenBookQA56.6%—
TriviaQA79.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Non-English—1205
LMArena Chinese—1222
LMArena Russian—1228

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.7%
LMArena Instruction Following—1223

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Longer Query—1251

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Text—1230
LMArena Creative Writing—1174
LMArena Multi-Turn—1222
LiveBench Language—23.3%

Frequently asked questions

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

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#245); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.

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