# Falcon-40B vs Granite 3.1 2b Instruct

> Granite 3.1 2b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#243); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-40b-vs-granite-3-1-2b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-40B | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | IBM |
| Noometry Index | — | 32.6 |
| Rank | — | 243 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Falcon-40B: —
- Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 32.9 (#255)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1149 |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-40B: —
- Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 21.0 (#206)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1138 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.04 | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 77.3% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 76.9% | — |

## Math

- Falcon-40B: —
- Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 30.6 (#206)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1159 |
| GSM8K | 33.8% | — |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-40B: —
- Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 30.3 (#223)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1131 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 61.9% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.1% | — |
| MMLU | 56.9% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.9% | — |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-40B: —
- Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 29.2 (#264)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1068 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1138 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1063 |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-40B: —
- Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 58.0 (#259)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1116 |

## Long Context

- Falcon-40B: —
- Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 35.0 (#239)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1155 |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-40B: —
- Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 34.3 (#269)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1127 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1116 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1099 |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-40B better than Granite 3.1 2b Instruct?

Granite 3.1 2b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#243); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Granite 3.1 2b Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Granite 3.1 2b Instruct has 12.