# Falcon-7B vs Qwen1.5-72B

> Qwen1.5-72B has enough public results to be ranked (#282); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-7b-vs-qwen1-5-72b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-7B | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | — | 30.3 |
| Rank | — | 282 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Falcon-7B: —
- Qwen1.5-72B: 31.4 (#272)

| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 33.2% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1166 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 40.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 59.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 61.6% |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-7B: —
- Qwen1.5-72B: 21.2 (#201)

| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1148 |
| 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: —
- Qwen1.5-72B: 30.7 (#205)

| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1164 |
| GSM8K | 6.8% | — |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-7B: —
- Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#295)

| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 28.8% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1136 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 47.9% | — |
| BoolQ | 75.3% | — |
| MMLU | 35% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 51.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 64.6% | — |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-7B: —
- Qwen1.5-72B: 33.4 (#248)

| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1135 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1186 |
| LMArena French | — | 1158 |
| LMArena German | — | 1084 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1061 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1049 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1104 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1110 |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-7B: —
- Qwen1.5-72B: 59.6 (#251)

| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1142 |

## Long Context

- Falcon-7B: —
- Qwen1.5-72B: 35.0 (#238)

| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1157 |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-7B: —
- Qwen1.5-72B: 37.4 (#253)

| Benchmark | Falcon-7B | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1166 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1137 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1160 |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-7B better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Qwen1.5-72B has enough public results to be ranked (#282); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-7B and Qwen1.5-72B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-7B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.