# Falcon-40B vs Llama 2-13B

> Llama 2-13B has enough public results to be ranked (#309); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-40b-vs-llama-2-13b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 12

## Summary

- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both.

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-40B | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Meta |
| Noometry Index | — | 29.6 |
| Rank | — | 309 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1062 |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.1% | 58.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.45 | 106.17 |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | 80.7% |
| LAMBADA | 77.3% | 76.5% |
| PIQA | 83% | 80.8% |
| WinoGrande | 76.9% | 72.8% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1051 |
| DTBench | — | 42.2% |

## Math

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 33.8% | 36.9% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1065 |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 61.9% | 60.3% |
| BoolQ | 83.1% | 82.4% |
| MMLU | 56.9% | 55.6% |
| OpenBookQA | 56.6% | 57% |
| TriviaQA | 79.9% | 79.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1030 |

## Multimodal

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 2-13B: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| ScienceQA | — | 55.8% |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1024 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1001 |
| LMArena French | — | 1044 |
| LMArena German | — | 1009 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 894 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 953 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1055 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1087 |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1045 |

## Long Context

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1064 |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1084 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1047 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1050 |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-40B better than Llama 2-13B?

Llama 2-13B has enough public results to be ranked (#309); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Llama 2-13B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-13B has 32.