Model comparison

Falcon-40B vs StarCoder 2 15B

Neither Falcon-40B nor StarCoder 2 15B has enough public benchmark results to be ranked yet; the rows below show what has been published.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both.

Side by side

Falcon-40B and StarCoder 2 15B specifications
Falcon-40BStarCoder 2 15B
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteNVIDIA
Noometry Index—38.1
Released2023-03-152024-02-20
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked127

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, StarCoder 2 15B: 36.6

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BStarCoder 2 15B
BigCodeBench Complete—38.4%
HumanEval+—37.8%

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, StarCoder 2 15B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BStarCoder 2 15B
Epoch Capabilities Index104.45105
WinoGrande76.9%64.3%
BIG-Bench Hard37.1%—
HellaSwag85.3%—
LAMBADA77.3%—
PIQA83%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, StarCoder 2 15B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BStarCoder 2 15B
GSM8K33.8%57.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, StarCoder 2 15B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BStarCoder 2 15B
ARC (AI2) Challenge61.9%47.2%
MMLU56.9%64.1%
BoolQ83.1%—
OpenBookQA56.6%—
TriviaQA79.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-40B better than StarCoder 2 15B?

Neither Falcon-40B nor StarCoder 2 15B has enough public benchmark results to be ranked yet; the rows below show what has been published.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and StarCoder 2 15B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 15B has 7.

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