# Falcon-180B vs Falcon-40B

> Falcon-180B has enough public results to be ranked (#260); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-180b-vs-falcon-40b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 10

## Summary

- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both.

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-180B | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Technology Innovation Institute |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | — |
| Rank | 260 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269)
- Falcon-40B: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | 104.45 |
| HellaSwag | 89% | 85.3% |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | 77.3% |
| PIQA | 84.9% | 83% |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | 76.9% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 37.1% |

## Math

- Falcon-180B: —
- Falcon-40B: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 54.4% | 33.8% |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-180B: —
- Falcon-40B: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | 61.9% |
| BoolQ | 89% | 83.1% |
| MMLU | 70.6% | 56.9% |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | 56.6% |
| TriviaQA | — | 79.9% |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286)
- Falcon-40B: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286)
- Falcon-40B: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295)
- Falcon-40B: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Falcon-40B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-180B better than Falcon-40B?

Falcon-180B has enough public results to be ranked (#260); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Falcon-40B share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Falcon-40B has 12.