# Falcon-40B vs Qwen1.5-7B

> Qwen1.5-7B has enough public results to be ranked (#270); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-40b-vs-qwen1-5-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-40B | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | — | 30.8 |
| Rank | — | 270 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Falcon-40B: —
- Qwen1.5-7B: 31.6 (#271)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1107 |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-40B: —
- Qwen1.5-7B: 19.5 (#237)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1066 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.04 | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 77.3% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 76.9% | — |

## Math

- Falcon-40B: —
- Qwen1.5-7B: 29.0 (#222)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1080 |
| GSM8K | 33.8% | — |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-40B: —
- Qwen1.5-7B: 28.2 (#239)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 56.9% | 62.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1055 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 61.9% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.1% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.9% | — |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-40B: —
- Qwen1.5-7B: 28.6 (#266)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1058 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1140 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1006 |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-40B: —
- Qwen1.5-7B: 54.4 (#276)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1058 |

## Long Context

- Falcon-40B: —
- Qwen1.5-7B: 33.1 (#261)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1090 |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-40B: —
- Qwen1.5-7B: 29.8 (#288)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1084 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1035 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1061 |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-40B better than Qwen1.5-7B?

Qwen1.5-7B has enough public results to be ranked (#270); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Qwen1.5-7B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-7B has 13.