# Falcon-40B vs Granite 4.0 Micro

> Granite 4.0 Micro has enough public results to be ranked (#312); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-40b-vs-granite-4-0-micro
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-40B | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | IBM |
| Noometry Index | — | 28.8 |
| Rank | — | 312 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.017 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-40B: —
- Granite 4.0 Micro: 18.5 (#261)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| 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 4.0 Micro: 11.2 (#301)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.8% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 20.9% |
| GSM8K | 33.8% | — |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-40B: —
- Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#299)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 28.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 39.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 30.7% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 61.9% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.1% | — |
| MMLU | 56.9% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.9% | — |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-40B: —
- Granite 4.0 Micro: 70.0 (#164)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 84.9% |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-40B: —
- Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#212)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| WildBench | — | 67% |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-40B better than Granite 4.0 Micro?

Granite 4.0 Micro has enough public results to be ranked (#312); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Granite 4.0 Micro share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 Micro has 8.