# Falcon-7B vs Granite 3.1 8b Instruct

> Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#256); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-7b-vs-granite-3-1-8b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-7B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | IBM |
| Noometry Index | — | 31.8 |
| Rank | — | 256 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Falcon-7B: —
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 33.9 (#232)

| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1186 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Falcon-7B: —
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 23.9 (#113)

| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 27.1% |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-7B: —
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 21.2 (#204)

| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1146 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 28.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 94.49 | — |
| HellaSwag | 78.1% | — |
| LAMBADA | 74.9% | — |
| PIQA | 80.3% | — |
| WinoGrande | 67.2% | — |

## Math

- Falcon-7B: —
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.4 (#210)

| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1152 |
| GSM8K | 6.8% | — |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-7B: —
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.6 (#218)

| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1142 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 47.9% | — |
| BoolQ | 75.3% | — |
| MMLU | 35% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 51.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 64.6% | — |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-7B: —
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#255)

| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1099 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1145 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1092 |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-7B: —
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 58.9 (#254)

| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1131 |

## Long Context

- Falcon-7B: —
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.2 (#236)

| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1162 |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-7B: —
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.7 (#261)

| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1150 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1129 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1108 |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-7B better than Granite 3.1 8b Instruct?

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#256); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-7B and Granite 3.1 8b Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-7B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has 13.