Model comparison

Falcon-40B vs Qwen3-1.7B

Qwen3-1.7B has enough public results to be ranked (#336); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

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Falcon-40B and Qwen3-1.7B specifications
Falcon-40BQwen3-1.7B
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index—26.6
Released2023-03-152025-04-29
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked124

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Category by category

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen3-1.7B: 24.7 (#115)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen3-1.7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.4%

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen3-1.7B: 19.2 (#267)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen3-1.7B
Chess Puzzles—0%
BIG-Bench Hard37.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index104.45—
HellaSwag85.3%—
LAMBADA77.3%—
PIQA83%—
WinoGrande76.9%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen3-1.7B: 16.3 (#294)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen3-1.7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—8.1%
GSM8K33.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen3-1.7B: 19.6 (#278)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen3-1.7B
GPQA Diamond—38%
ARC (AI2) Challenge61.9%—
BoolQ83.1%—
MMLU56.9%—
OpenBookQA56.6%—
TriviaQA79.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-40B better than Qwen3-1.7B?

Qwen3-1.7B has enough public results to be ranked (#336); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Qwen3-1.7B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-1.7B has 4.

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