# Codellama 34b Instruct vs Falcon-40B

> Codellama 34b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#285); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/codellama-34b-instruct-vs-falcon-40b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Snapshot

| | Codellama 34b Instruct | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Technology Innovation Institute |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | — |
| Rank | 285 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.0 (#310)
- Falcon-40B: —

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1046 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 37.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 43.9% | — |
| MBPP+ | 56.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 18.8 (#250)
- Falcon-40B: —

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1032 | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 37.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 104.04 |
| HellaSwag | — | 85.3% |
| LAMBADA | — | 77.3% |
| PIQA | — | 83% |
| WinoGrande | — | 76.9% |

## Math

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#227)
- Falcon-40B: —

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1056 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 33.8% |

## Knowledge

- Codellama 34b Instruct: —
- Falcon-40B: —

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 61.9% |
| BoolQ | — | 83.1% |
| MMLU | — | 56.9% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 56.6% |
| TriviaQA | — | 79.9% |

## Multilingual

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.9 (#279)
- Falcon-40B: —

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1011 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 976 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.4 (#286)
- Falcon-40B: —

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1028 | — |

## Long Context

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.8 (#279)
- Falcon-40B: —

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1014 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.4 (#292)
- Falcon-40B: —

| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1066 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1032 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1015 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than Falcon-40B?

Codellama 34b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#285); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and Falcon-40B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Falcon-40B has 12.