# Falcon-40B vs Qwen3 8B

> Qwen3 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#237); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-40b-vs-qwen3-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-40B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | — | 33.3 |
| Rank | — | 237 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.18 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Falcon-40B: —
- Qwen3 8B: 33.4 (#245)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 22.6% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Falcon-40B: —
- Qwen3 8B: 29.9 (#71)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 42.6% |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-40B: —
- Qwen3 8B: 16.1 (#299)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.04 | 136.17 |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| DTBench | — | 59.7% |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 77.3% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 76.9% | — |

## Math

- Falcon-40B: —
- Qwen3 8B: 33.3 (#176)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 56.1% |
| GSM8K | 33.8% | — |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-40B: —
- Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#164)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.8% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 61.9% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.1% | — |
| MMLU | 56.9% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 56.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.9% | — |

## Long Context

- Falcon-40B: —
- Qwen3 8B: 37.8 (#205)

| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-40B better than Qwen3 8B?

Qwen3 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#237); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Qwen3 8B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.