Model comparison

Falcon-7B vs GPT-3.5-turbo

GPT-3.5-turbo has enough public results to be ranked (#350); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both.
  • Falcon-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-7B and GPT-3.5-turbo specifications
Falcon-7BGPT-3.5-turbo
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteOpenAI
Noometry Index—23.2
Released2023-04-242023-03-01
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—16K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$1.50
Results tracked1244

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, GPT-3.5-turbo: 23.9 (#331)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGPT-3.5-turbo
WeirdML—3.5%
BigCodeBench Instruct—39.1%
LMArena Coding—1136
BigCodeBench Complete—50.6%
HumanEval+—70.7%
MBPP+—69.7%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, GPT-3.5-turbo: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGPT-3.5-turbo
METR Time Horizons—21.5%

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, GPT-3.5-turbo: 13.8 (#332)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGPT-3.5-turbo
BIG-Bench Hard28.8%61.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index95.1118.55
WinoGrande67.2%81.6%
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1108
Mystery Game Puzzles—3%
DTBench—48.5%
LMCA—9.7%
Adversarial NLI—58.1%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—57%
ForecastBench—50.4
HellaSwag78.1%—
LAMBADA74.9%—
PIQA80.3%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, GPT-3.5-turbo: 6.3 (#327)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGPT-3.5-turbo
GSM8K6.8%57.8%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—0%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—2.2%
LMArena Math—1142
MATH Level 5—15.9%

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, GPT-3.5-turbo: 10.0 (#303)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGPT-3.5-turbo
ARC (AI2) Challenge47.9%87.4%
BoolQ75.3%87%
MMLU35%71.4%
OpenBookQA51.6%86%
TriviaQA64.6%85.8%
GPQA Diamond—28%
LMArena Expert—1070

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, GPT-3.5-turbo: 31.5 (#258)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Non-English—1108
LMArena Chinese—1075
LMArena French—1118
LMArena German—1090
LMArena Japanese—1043
LMArena Korean—1019
LMArena Russian—1123
LMArena Spanish—1121

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, GPT-3.5-turbo: 57.9 (#262)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Instruction Following—1119

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, GPT-3.5-turbo: 34.0 (#254)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Longer Query—1121

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, GPT-3.5-turbo: 25.3 (#305)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Text—1125
LMArena Creative Writing—1092
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—451
LMArena Multi-Turn—1117

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-7B better than GPT-3.5-turbo?

GPT-3.5-turbo has enough public results to be ranked (#350); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-7B and GPT-3.5-turbo share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-7B has 12 scored results on Noometry and GPT-3.5-turbo has 44.

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