# Falcon-7B vs Granite 4.2 3b

> Granite 4.2 3b has enough public results to be ranked (#169); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-7b-vs-granite-4-2-3b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-7B | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | IBM |
| Noometry Index | — | 39.4 |
| Rank | — | 169 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Falcon-7B: —
- Granite 4.2 3b: 40.0 (#151)

| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1361 |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-7B: —
- Granite 4.2 3b: 26.0 (#138)

| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1306 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 28.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 95.1 | — |
| HellaSwag | 78.1% | — |
| LAMBADA | 74.9% | — |
| PIQA | 80.3% | — |
| WinoGrande | 67.2% | — |

## Math

- Falcon-7B: —
- Granite 4.2 3b: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 6.8% | — |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-7B: —
- Granite 4.2 3b: 36.3 (#171)

| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1315 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 47.9% | — |
| BoolQ | 75.3% | — |
| MMLU | 35% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 51.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 64.6% | — |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-7B: —
- Granite 4.2 3b: 42.1 (#198)

| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1268 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1269 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1249 |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-7B: —
- Granite 4.2 3b: 67.1 (#200)

| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1273 |

## Long Context

- Falcon-7B: —
- Granite 4.2 3b: 39.2 (#185)

| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1291 |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-7B: —
- Granite 4.2 3b: 47.2 (#212)

| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1293 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1205 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1290 |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-7B better than Granite 4.2 3b?

Granite 4.2 3b has enough public results to be ranked (#169); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-7B and Granite 4.2 3b share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-7B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.2 3b has 11.