Model comparison

Falcon-7B vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#320); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both.

Side by side

Falcon-7B and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct specifications
Falcon-7BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index—29.0
Released2023-04-242024-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.17
Output $ / M tokens—$0.70
Results tracked1215

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 36.5 (#208)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—46.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.8 (#124)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
BALROG—7.8%

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.8 (#322)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
Epoch Capabilities Index95.1118.51
Chess Puzzles—0%
DTBench—47.7%
LMCA—6.4%
BIG-Bench Hard28.8%—
HellaSwag78.1%—
LAMBADA74.9%—
PIQA80.3%—
WinoGrande67.2%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 12.6 (#306)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—2.5%
Omni-MATH—29.4%
GSM8K6.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#286)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
MMLU35%72.9%
GPQA Diamond—35.5%
MMLU-Pro—53.9%
GPQA (HELM)—34.1%
ARC (AI2) Challenge47.9%—
BoolQ75.3%—
OpenBookQA51.6%—
TriviaQA64.6%—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.2 (#231)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
IFEval—74.1%

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#195)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
WildBench—73.1%

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-7B better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#320); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-7B and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-7B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.

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