# Claude 3 Sonnet vs Falcon-7B

> Claude 3 Sonnet has enough public results to be ranked (#311); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-sonnet-vs-falcon-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 3

## Summary

- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both.
- Falcon-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3 Sonnet | Falcon-7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Technology Innovation Institute |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | — |
| Rank | 311 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.2 (#296)
- Falcon-7B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Falcon-7B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 10.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 19.7 (#232)
- Falcon-7B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Falcon-7B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.69 | 94.49 |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | 67.2% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | — |
| DTBench | 53.6% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 28.8% |
| HellaSwag | — | 78.1% |
| LAMBADA | — | 74.9% |
| PIQA | — | 80.3% |

## Math

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.0 (#305)
- Falcon-7B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Falcon-7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1213 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 6.8% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#271)
- Falcon-7B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Falcon-7B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 75.9% | 35% |
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 47.9% |
| BoolQ | — | 75.3% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 51.6% |
| TriviaQA | — | 64.6% |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 24.7 (#120)
- Falcon-7B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Falcon-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 38.0 (#229)
- Falcon-7B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Falcon-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1188 | — |
| LMArena French | 1228 | — |
| LMArena German | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 63.1 (#230)
- Falcon-7B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Falcon-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1200 | — |

## Long Context

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#223)
- Falcon-7B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Falcon-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.3 (#233)
- Falcon-7B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Falcon-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Falcon-7B?

Claude 3 Sonnet has enough public results to be ranked (#311); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Falcon-7B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Falcon-7B has 12.