# Falcon-40B vs Gemini 3.8 Flash

> Gemini 3.8 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#11); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-40b-vs-gemini-3-8-flash
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
- Falcon-40B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-40B | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Google |
| Noometry Index | — | 61.8 |
| Rank | — | 11 |
| Context | — | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | — | $0.75 |
| Output $/M | — | $3.75 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Falcon-40B: —
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 59.2 (#15)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSWE | — | 73.8% |
| FrontierCode | — | 41.2% |
| CursorBench | — | 39.6% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1584 |
| FrontierSWE | — | 19.6% |
| SciCode | — | 56.6% |
| WeirdML | — | 84.8% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1510 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 1,270 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Falcon-40B: —
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 41.8 (#21)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 64.3% |
| Remote Labor Index | — | 5.8% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 23.4% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 5,094 |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-40B: —
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 76.9 (#5)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.45 | 156.71 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 89.2% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 97.4% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 98.5% |
| CritPt | — | 18.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 61% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1508 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 47% |
| DTBench | — | 95.7% |
| LMCA | — | 52.9% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 76.9% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 77.3% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 76.9% | — |

## Math

- Falcon-40B: —
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 65.3 (#28)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 68.4% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 22% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 98.9% |
| ProofBench | — | 48% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1528 |
| GSM8K | 33.8% | — |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-40B: —
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 74.8 (#2)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 95.4% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 44.5% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 69.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1524 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 61.9% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.1% | — |
| MMLU | 56.9% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Falcon-40B: —
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 40.7 (#45)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1314 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 38.6% |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 31.7% |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-40B: —
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 58.0 (#5)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1491 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1554 |
| LMArena French | — | 1498 |
| LMArena German | — | 1493 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1502 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1459 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1515 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1485 |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-40B: —
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 78.0 (#13)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1490 |

## Long Context

- Falcon-40B: —
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 46.3 (#24)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1508 |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-40B: —
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: 72.2 (#15)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1499 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1492 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1748 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1501 |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-40B better than Gemini 3.8 Flash?

Gemini 3.8 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#11); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Gemini 3.8 Flash share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.8 Flash has 50.