# Falcon-40B vs Llama 13b

> Llama 13b has enough public results to be ranked (#344); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-40b-vs-llama-13b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 12

## Summary

- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both.

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-40B | Llama 13b |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Meta |
| Noometry Index | — | 23.9 |
| Rank | — | 344 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 13b: 20.9 (#332)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 13b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 683 |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 13b: 13.4 (#327)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 13b |
|---|---|---|
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.1% | 37.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.04 | 100.09 |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | 79.2% |
| LAMBADA | 77.3% | 75.2% |
| PIQA | 83% | 80.1% |
| WinoGrande | 76.9% | 73% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 728 |

## Math

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 13b: 24.4 (#259)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 13b |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 33.8% | 20.6% |
| LMArena Math | — | 838 |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 13b: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 13b |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 61.9% | 52.7% |
| BoolQ | 83.1% | 78.7% |
| MMLU | 56.9% | 47.7% |
| OpenBookQA | 56.6% | 56.4% |
| TriviaQA | 79.9% | 77.9% |

## Multimodal

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 13b: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 13b |
|---|---|---|
| ScienceQA | — | 43.3% |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 13b: 16.8 (#292)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 13b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 819 |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 13b: 36.9 (#300)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 13b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 781 |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 13b: 13.9 (#307)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 13b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 834 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 794 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 753 |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-40B better than Llama 13b?

Llama 13b has enough public results to be ranked (#344); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Llama 13b share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Llama 13b has 21.