# Falcon-40B vs Muse Spark 1.1

> Muse Spark 1.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#43); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-40b-vs-muse-spark-1-1
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
- Falcon-40B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-40B | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Meta |
| Noometry Index | — | 49.9 |
| Rank | — | 43 |
| Context | — | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | — | $1.25 |
| Output $/M | — | $4.25 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Falcon-40B: —
- Muse Spark 1.1: 50.8 (#38)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSWE | — | 53.3% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1542 |
| SciCode | — | 58.8% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1497 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Falcon-40B: —
- Muse Spark 1.1: 33.9 (#45)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| τ²-bench Banking | — | 40.5% |
| GBAEval | — | 7.9% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 15% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 6,520 |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-40B: —
- Muse Spark 1.1: 45.9 (#41)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.04 | 154.32 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 84.9% |
| CritPt | — | 15.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1486 |
| DTBench | — | 94.4% |
| LMCA | — | 49.9% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 52.5% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 77.3% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 76.9% | — |

## Math

- Falcon-40B: —
- Muse Spark 1.1: 44.0 (#67)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | — | 39% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1477 |
| GSM8K | 33.8% | — |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-40B: —
- Muse Spark 1.1: 52.8 (#55)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 57.8% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1480 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 61.9% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.1% | — |
| MMLU | 56.9% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Falcon-40B: —
- Muse Spark 1.1: 41.9 (#28)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1292 |
| LMArena Document | — | 1465 |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-40B: —
- Muse Spark 1.1: 56.8 (#16)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1471 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1518 |
| LMArena French | — | 1494 |
| LMArena German | — | 1466 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1445 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1459 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1482 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1471 |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-40B: —
- Muse Spark 1.1: 76.8 (#36)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1457 |

## Long Context

- Falcon-40B: —
- Muse Spark 1.1: 44.8 (#55)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1463 |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-40B: —
- Muse Spark 1.1: 73.6 (#11)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1479 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1440 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1927 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1260 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1484 |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-40B better than Muse Spark 1.1?

Muse Spark 1.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#43); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Muse Spark 1.1 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Muse Spark 1.1 has 36.