# Falcon-40B vs Gemma 2B

> Gemma 2B has enough public results to be ranked (#305); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

## Summary

- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both.

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-40B | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Google |
| Noometry Index | — | 29.1 |
| Rank | — | 305 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Falcon-40B: —
- Gemma 2B: 28.9 (#300)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1010 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 20.7% |
| MBPP+ | — | 34.1% |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-40B: —
- Gemma 2B: 17.9 (#275)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.1% | 35.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.04 | 93.57 |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | 71.4% |
| PIQA | 83% | 77.3% |
| WinoGrande | 76.9% | 65.4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 989 |
| LAMBADA | 77.3% | — |

## Math

- Falcon-40B: —
- Gemma 2B: 27.6 (#237)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 33.8% | 17.7% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1009 |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-40B: —
- Gemma 2B: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 61.9% | 42.1% |
| BoolQ | 83.1% | 69.4% |
| MMLU | 56.9% | 42.3% |
| TriviaQA | 79.9% | 53.2% |
| OpenBookQA | 56.6% | — |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-40B: —
- Gemma 2B: 23.1 (#289)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 958 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 986 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 937 |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-40B: —
- Gemma 2B: 48.8 (#297)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 971 |

## Long Context

- Falcon-40B: —
- Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#286)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 981 |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-40B: —
- Gemma 2B: 24.1 (#303)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1002 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 986 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 945 |

## FAQ

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

Gemma 2B has enough public results to be ranked (#305); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2B has 23.