Model comparison

Falcon-7B vs GPT-4

GPT-4 has enough public results to be ranked (#316); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4 OpenAI

29.1

Rank #316 Confirmed

Summary

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

Side by side

Falcon-7B and GPT-4 specifications
Falcon-7BGPT-4
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteOpenAI
Noometry Index—29.1
Released2023-04-242023-03-14
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—8K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$30
Output $ / M tokens—$60
Results tracked1238

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, GPT-4: 31.6 (#283)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGPT-4
WeirdML—12.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct—46%
LMArena Coding—1254
BigCodeBench Complete—57.2%
HumanEval+—79.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, GPT-4: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGPT-4
METR Time Horizons—36.1%

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, GPT-4: 17.8 (#289)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGPT-4
BIG-Bench Hard28.8%75.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index95.1125.89
HellaSwag78.1%95.3%
WinoGrande67.2%87.5%
Chess Puzzles—4%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1241
Mystery Game Puzzles—12%
DTBench—62.7%
LMCA—17.1%
ForecastBench—57.8
LAMBADA74.9%—
PIQA80.3%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, GPT-4: 10.8 (#309)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGPT-4
GSM8K6.8%92%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—1.1%
LMArena Math—1269
MATH Level 5—23%

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, GPT-4: 18.4 (#282)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGPT-4
MMLU35%86.4%
TriviaQA64.6%84.8%
GPQA Diamond—35.7%
LMArena Expert—1211
ARC (AI2) Challenge47.9%—
BoolQ75.3%—
OpenBookQA51.6%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, GPT-4: 40.6 (#215)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGPT-4
LMArena Non-English—1246
LMArena Chinese—1242
LMArena French—1283
LMArena German—1251
LMArena Japanese—1209
LMArena Korean—1184
LMArena Russian—1251
LMArena Spanish—1261

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, GPT-4: 65.3 (#222)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGPT-4
LMArena Instruction Following—1241

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, GPT-4: 37.7 (#212)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGPT-4
LMArena Longer Query—1244

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, GPT-4: 34.9 (#268)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGPT-4
LMArena Text—1263
LMArena Creative Writing—1244
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—752
LMArena Multi-Turn—1257

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-7B better than GPT-4?

GPT-4 has enough public results to be ranked (#316); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-7B and GPT-4 share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-7B has 12 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4 has 38.

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