Model comparison

Falcon-7B vs Granite 4.2 3b

Granite 4.2 3b has enough public results to be ranked (#169); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

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Falcon-7B and Granite 4.2 3b specifications
Falcon-7BGranite 4.2 3b
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteIBM
Noometry Index—39.4
Released2023-04-24—
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked1211

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Granite 4.2 3b: 40.0 (#151)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGranite 4.2 3b
LMArena Coding—1361

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Granite 4.2 3b: 26.0 (#138)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGranite 4.2 3b
LMArena Hard Prompts—1306
BIG-Bench Hard28.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index95.1—
HellaSwag78.1%—
LAMBADA74.9%—
PIQA80.3%—
WinoGrande67.2%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Granite 4.2 3b: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGranite 4.2 3b
GSM8K6.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Granite 4.2 3b: 36.3 (#171)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGranite 4.2 3b
LMArena Expert—1315
ARC (AI2) Challenge47.9%—
BoolQ75.3%—
MMLU35%—
OpenBookQA51.6%—
TriviaQA64.6%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Granite 4.2 3b: 42.1 (#198)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGranite 4.2 3b
LMArena Non-English—1268
LMArena Chinese—1269
LMArena Russian—1249

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Granite 4.2 3b: 67.1 (#200)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGranite 4.2 3b
LMArena Instruction Following—1273

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Granite 4.2 3b: 39.2 (#185)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGranite 4.2 3b
LMArena Longer Query—1291

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Granite 4.2 3b: 47.2 (#212)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGranite 4.2 3b
LMArena Text—1293
LMArena Creative Writing—1205
LMArena Multi-Turn—1290

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-7B better than Granite 4.2 3b?

Granite 4.2 3b has enough public results to be ranked (#169); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-7B and Granite 4.2 3b share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-7B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.2 3b has 11.

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