# Falcon-40B vs Muse Spark 1.2

> Muse Spark 1.2 has enough public results to be ranked (#44); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-40b-vs-muse-spark-1-2
- 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 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Meta |
| Noometry Index | — | 49.8 |
| Rank | — | 44 |
| Context | — | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | — | $1.25 |
| Output $/M | — | $4.25 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Falcon-40B: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 48.6 (#49)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSWE | — | 54.9% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1532 |
| FrontierSWE | — | 12% |
| SciCode | — | 56.4% |
| WeirdML | — | 60.3% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1497 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Falcon-40B: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 29.5 (#77)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 36.4% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 16% |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-40B: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 50.4 (#32)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.04 | 155.18 |
| SimpleBench | — | 74.5% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 79.2% |
| CritPt | — | 17.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1490 |
| DTBench | — | 94.7% |
| LMCA | — | 48.4% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 77.3% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 76.9% | — |

## Math

- Falcon-40B: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 43.8 (#68)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | — | 43% |
| GSM8K | 33.8% | — |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-40B: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 53.9 (#49)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 60.3% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1485 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 61.9% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.1% | — |
| MMLU | 56.9% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Falcon-40B: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 42.6 (#24)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1304 |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-40B: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 57.4 (#10)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1479 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1519 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1494 |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-40B: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 77.1 (#30)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1466 |

## Long Context

- Falcon-40B: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 45.4 (#35)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1483 |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-40B: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 72.6 (#14)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1486 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1444 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1840 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1504 |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-40B better than Muse Spark 1.2?

Muse Spark 1.2 has enough public results to be ranked (#44); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Muse Spark 1.2 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Muse Spark 1.2 has 28.