# Falcon-40B vs Gemma 2 9B

> Gemma 2 9B has enough public results to be ranked (#334); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-40b-vs-gemma-2-9b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 5

## Summary

- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both.

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-40B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Google |
| Noometry Index | — | 25.7 |
| Rank | — | 334 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Falcon-40B: —
- Gemma 2 9B: 29.0 (#299)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 34.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 22.5% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1174 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 40.6% |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-40B: —
- Gemma 2 9B: 15.3 (#306)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.04 | 119.78 |
| PIQA | 83% | 83.7% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 15.2% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1172 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 36.4% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 77.3% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 28.7% |
| WinoGrande | 76.9% | — |

## Math

- Falcon-40B: —
- Gemma 2 9B: 9.3 (#312)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 33.8% | 84.9% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 0.6% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 19.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1183 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 21% |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-40B: —
- Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#300)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| BoolQ | 83.1% | 85.7% |
| MMLU | 56.9% | 72.1% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 27.5% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1147 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 61.9% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.9% | — |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-40B: —
- Gemma 2 9B: 36.8 (#233)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1188 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1185 |
| LMArena French | — | 1189 |
| LMArena German | — | 1186 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1144 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1137 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1200 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1200 |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-40B: —
- Gemma 2 9B: 57.8 (#264)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 52.6% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1178 |

## Long Context

- Falcon-40B: —
- Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#228)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1197 |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-40B: —
- Gemma 2 9B: 32.3 (#276)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1207 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1206 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 841 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1193 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 25.5% |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-40B better than Gemma 2 9B?

Gemma 2 9B has enough public results to be ranked (#334); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Gemma 2 9B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 9B has 35.