# Claude 2.1 vs Falcon-40B

> Claude 2.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#340); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-2-1-vs-falcon-40b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 2

## Summary

- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both.
- Falcon-40B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2.1 | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Technology Innovation Institute |
| Noometry Index | 24.9 | — |
| Rank | 340 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 2.1: 25.8 (#322)
- Falcon-40B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 7.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2.1: 20.6 (#216)
- Falcon-40B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.22 | 104.04 |
| DTBench | 51% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 37.1% |
| ForecastBench | 54.2 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 85.3% |
| LAMBADA | — | 77.3% |
| PIQA | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 76.9% |

## Math

- Claude 2.1: 9.6 (#309)
- Falcon-40B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.9% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 33.8% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2.1: 15.5 (#287)
- Falcon-40B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 73.5% | 56.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 61.9% |
| BoolQ | — | 83.1% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 56.6% |
| TriviaQA | — | 79.9% |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2.1 better than Falcon-40B?

Claude 2.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#340); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 2.1 and Falcon-40B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2.1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Falcon-40B has 12.