# Falcon-40B vs Llama 3.1-8B

> Llama 3.1-8B has enough public results to be ranked (#347); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-40b-vs-llama-3-1-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 5

## Summary

- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both.

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-40B | Llama 3.1-8B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Meta |
| Noometry Index | — | 22.8 |
| Rank | — | 347 |
| Context | — | 128K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.05 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.08 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 3.1-8B: 19.9 (#335)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 3.1-8B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 13.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 1.7% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 32.8% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1195 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 40.5% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 62.8% |
| MBPP+ | — | 55.6% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 3.1-8B: 22.3 (#123)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 3.1-8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 25.8% |
| BALROG | — | 15.1% |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 3.1-8B: 14.5 (#316)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 3.1-8B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.04 | 116.48 |
| PIQA | 83% | 81.2% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1175 |
| DTBench | — | 50.9% |
| LMCA | — | 5.4% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 77.3% | — |
| WinoGrande | 76.9% | — |

## Math

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 3.1-8B: 9.5 (#311)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 3.1-8B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 33.8% | 82.4% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 1.7% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 13.7% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1179 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 22.9% |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 3.1-8B: 8.0 (#302)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 3.1-8B |
|---|---|---|
| BoolQ | 83.1% | 82.8% |
| MMLU | 56.9% | 56.1% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 27% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 40.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 24.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1144 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 61.9% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.9% | — |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 3.1-8B: 34.2 (#244)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 3.1-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1148 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1151 |
| LMArena French | — | 1176 |
| LMArena German | — | 1144 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1061 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1053 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1158 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1169 |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 3.1-8B: 59.1 (#253)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 3.1-8B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 74.3% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1159 |

## Long Context

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 3.1-8B: 35.8 (#233)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 3.1-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1182 |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-40B: —
- Llama 3.1-8B: 29.9 (#285)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 3.1-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1187 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1154 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 713 |
| WildBench | — | 68.7% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1172 |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-40B better than Llama 3.1-8B?

Llama 3.1-8B has enough public results to be ranked (#347); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Llama 3.1-8B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-8B has 43.