# Falcon-40B vs GPT-5.6 Luna

> GPT-5.6 Luna has enough public results to be ranked (#24); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-40b-vs-gpt-5-6-luna
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- 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 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | — | 54.7 |
| Rank | — | 24 |
| Context | — | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | — | $0.20 |
| Output $/M | — | $1.20 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Falcon-40B: —
- GPT-5.6 Luna: 53.9 (#25)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSWE | — | 67.2% |
| FrontierCode | — | 39.8% |
| CursorBench | — | 35.9% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1517 |
| SciCode | — | 53.6% |
| WeirdML | — | 60.9% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1466 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 1,667 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Falcon-40B: —
- GPT-5.6 Luna: 35.3 (#37)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 45.6% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 22.7% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 4,095 |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-40B: —
- GPT-5.6 Luna: 47.5 (#38)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.04 | 156.32 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 59.5% |
| SimpleBench | — | 46.8% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 49.1% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 69.4% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 88% |
| CritPt | — | 20.6% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 40% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1452 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 21% |
| DTBench | — | 89.1% |
| LMCA | — | 48.5% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 61.9% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 77.3% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 76.9% | — |

## Math

- Falcon-40B: —
- GPT-5.6 Luna: 77.5 (#12)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 82.1% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 61% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 98.3% |
| ProofBench | — | 60% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1455 |
| GSM8K | 33.8% | — |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-40B: —
- GPT-5.6 Luna: 58.6 (#31)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 91.6% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 41% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1479 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 61.9% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.1% | — |
| MMLU | 56.9% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Falcon-40B: —
- GPT-5.6 Luna: 43.0 (#22)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1259 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 22.6% |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 42.5% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1457 |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-40B: —
- GPT-5.6 Luna: 53.0 (#73)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1418 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1469 |
| LMArena French | — | 1457 |
| LMArena German | — | 1459 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1416 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1414 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1428 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1445 |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-40B: —
- GPT-5.6 Luna: 76.0 (#48)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1440 |

## Long Context

- Falcon-40B: —
- GPT-5.6 Luna: 43.9 (#78)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1437 |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-40B: —
- GPT-5.6 Luna: 68.3 (#27)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1432 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1397 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1829 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1156 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1433 |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-40B better than GPT-5.6 Luna?

GPT-5.6 Luna has enough public results to be ranked (#24); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and GPT-5.6 Luna share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.6 Luna has 51.