Model comparison
Falcon-7B vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#267); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation Institute
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both.
Side by side
| Falcon-7B | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | — | 31.9 |
| Released | 2023-04-24 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $5.60 |
| Results tracked | 12 | 43 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-7B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 33.2 (#260)
| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | — | 16% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45.8% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1292 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 55.9% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Falcon-7B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.1 (#133)
| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 5.7% |
| BALROG | — | 16.2% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 35.8% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Falcon-7B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.3 (#199)
| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BIG-Bench Hard | 28.8% | 79.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 95.1 | 129 |
| HellaSwag | 78.1% | 84.8% |
| PIQA | 80.3% | 82.6% |
| WinoGrande | 67.2% | 82.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1271 |
| DTBench | — | 62.9% |
| LMCA | — | 13.4% |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.5 |
| LAMBADA | 74.9% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-7B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 19.3 (#287)
| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 8.1% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 33% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1283 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 63.2% |
| GSM8K | 6.8% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-7B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 27.0 (#253)
| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 47.9% | 94.5% |
| MMLU | 35% | 85.3% |
| TriviaQA | 64.6% | 71.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 49.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 63.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 19.1% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 42.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1245 |
| BoolQ | 75.3% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 51.6% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Falcon-7B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 41.0 (#213)
| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1252 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1272 |
| LMArena French | — | 1280 |
| LMArena German | — | 1234 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1180 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1188 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1264 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1256 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Falcon-7B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 65.5 (#221)
| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 80.6% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1254 |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-7B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 38.9 (#188)
| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1282 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Falcon-7B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 46.7 (#215)
| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1269 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1221 |
| WildBench | — | 80.2% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1272 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-7B better than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#267); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-7B and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct share?
8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-7B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has 43.