# Claude 2 vs Falcon-40B

> Claude 2 has enough public results to be ranked (#346); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-2-vs-falcon-40b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 3

## Summary

- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both.
- Falcon-40B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2 | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Technology Innovation Institute |
| Noometry Index | 25.0 | — |
| Rank | 346 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 2: —
- Falcon-40B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 61.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2: 21.7 (#216)
- Falcon-40B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.13 | 104.45 |
| DTBench | 51.9% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 37.1% |
| HellaSwag | — | 85.3% |
| LAMBADA | — | 77.3% |
| PIQA | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 76.9% |

## Math

- Claude 2: 9.3 (#320)
- Falcon-40B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 33.8% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2: 16.9 (#287)
- Falcon-40B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 78.5% | 56.9% |
| TriviaQA | 87.5% | 79.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | 34.7% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 61.9% |
| BoolQ | — | 83.1% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 56.6% |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2 better than Falcon-40B?

Claude 2 has enough public results to be ranked (#346); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and Falcon-40B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and Falcon-40B has 12.