Model comparison

Falcon-7B vs Llama 3.1-405B

Llama 3.1-405B has enough public results to be ranked (#288); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both.

Side by side

Falcon-7B and Llama 3.1-405B specifications
Falcon-7BLlama 3.1-405B
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteMeta
Noometry Index—30.7
Released2023-04-242024-07-23
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked1242

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Llama 3.1-405B: 33.1 (#262)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BLlama 3.1-405B
WeirdML—21.4%
LMArena Coding—1291

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Llama 3.1-405B: 21.0 (#140)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BLlama 3.1-405B
TheAgentCompany—7.4%
Cybench—7.5%

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Llama 3.1-405B: 16.8 (#300)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BLlama 3.1-405B
BIG-Bench Hard28.8%82.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index95.1128.75
HellaSwag78.1%89.2%
PIQA80.3%85.9%
WinoGrande67.2%89.2%
SimpleBench—23%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—45%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1269
DTBench—61.4%
ForecastBench—59.9
LAMBADA74.9%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Llama 3.1-405B: 18.4 (#290)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BLlama 3.1-405B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—9.7%
Omni-MATH—24.9%
LMArena Math—1281
MATH Level 5—49.8%
GSM8K6.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Llama 3.1-405B: 30.4 (#227)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BLlama 3.1-405B
ARC (AI2) Challenge47.9%95.3%
MMLU35%84.5%
TriviaQA64.6%82.7%
GPQA Diamond—50.9%
MMLU-Pro—72.3%
Confabulations—17.6%
GPQA (HELM)—52.2%
LMArena Expert—1243
BoolQ75.3%—
OpenBookQA51.6%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Llama 3.1-405B: 40.7 (#214)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Non-English—1248
LMArena Chinese—1242
LMArena French—1279
LMArena German—1252
LMArena Japanese—1208
LMArena Korean—1184
LMArena Russian—1265
LMArena Spanish—1260

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Llama 3.1-405B: 65.9 (#214)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BLlama 3.1-405B
IFEval—81.1%
LMArena Instruction Following—1259

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Llama 3.1-405B: 38.4 (#197)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Longer Query—1266

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Llama 3.1-405B: 38.9 (#251)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Text—1284
LMArena Creative Writing—1262
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—870
WildBench—78.3%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1297

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-7B better than Llama 3.1-405B?

Llama 3.1-405B has enough public results to be ranked (#288); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-7B and Llama 3.1-405B share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-7B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-405B has 42.

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