Model comparison

Falcon-40B vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Qwen3.6 Max Preview has enough public results to be ranked (#43); 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.
  • Falcon-40B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-40B and Qwen3.6 Max Preview specifications
Falcon-40BQwen3.6 Max Preview
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index—51.5
Released2023-03-152026-04-20
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.30
Output $ / M tokens—$7.80
Results tracked1229

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 48.7 (#54)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen3.6 Max Preview
SWE-bench Verified—76.7%
LMArena WebDev—1482
LMArena Coding—1471

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen3.6 Max Preview
Vending-Bench 2—4,254

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 41.7 (#53)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen3.6 Max Preview
Epoch Capabilities Index104.45149.24
SimpleBench—63%
NYT Connections (extended)—74.1%
Chess Puzzles—20%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1457
Mystery Game Puzzles—19%
DTBench—87.2%
LMCA—42.5%
BIG-Bench Hard37.1%—
HellaSwag85.3%—
LAMBADA77.3%—
PIQA83%—
WinoGrande76.9%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.1 (#46)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen3.6 Max Preview
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—91.1%
LMArena Math—1465
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—23.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—4.2%
GSM8K33.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 57.6 (#39)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen3.6 Max Preview
GPQA Diamond—87.4%
SimpleQA Verified—52%
LMArena Expert—1478
ARC (AI2) Challenge61.9%—
BoolQ83.1%—
MMLU56.9%—
OpenBookQA56.6%—
TriviaQA79.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.2 (#48)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Non-English—1437
LMArena Chinese—1487
LMArena French—1449
LMArena Russian—1445
LMArena Spanish—1454

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 75.7 (#55)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Instruction Following—1438

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 44.6 (#61)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Longer Query—1457

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 63.8 (#60)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Text—1447
LMArena Creative Writing—1435
LMArena Multi-Turn—1456

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-40B better than Qwen3.6 Max Preview?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview has enough public results to be ranked (#43); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Qwen3.6 Max Preview share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Max Preview has 29.

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