Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Falcon-40B

Claude Sonnet 5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#10); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • Falcon-40B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

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Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Falcon-40B specifications
Claude Sonnet 5.5Falcon-40B
ProviderAnthropicTechnology Innovation Institute
Noometry Index60.5—
Released2026-09-282023-03-15
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked1612

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 65.5 (#6), Falcon-40B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Falcon-40B
FrontierCode52.1%—
CursorBench55.5%—
LMArena WebDev1699—
FrontierSWE61.9%—
SciCode61%—
ALE-Bench1,819—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 44.9 (#14), Falcon-40B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Falcon-40B
APEX-Agents75.5%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 52.4 (#29), Falcon-40B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Falcon-40B
CritPt31.4%—
Mystery Game Puzzles65%—
BIG-Bench Hard—37.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—104.04
HellaSwag—85.3%
LAMBADA—77.3%
PIQA—83%
WinoGrande—76.9%

Math Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 88.7 (#4), Falcon-40B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Falcon-40B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)88.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 480.5%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench100%—
GSM8K—33.8%

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#11), Falcon-40B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Falcon-40B
GPQA Diamond95.6%—
SimpleQA Verified46.5%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—61.9%
BoolQ—83.1%
MMLU—56.9%
OpenBookQA—56.6%
TriviaQA—79.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 53.2 (#5), Falcon-40B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Falcon-40B
Furniture Assembly75%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 better than Falcon-40B?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#10); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Falcon-40B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5.5 has 16 scored results on Noometry and Falcon-40B has 12.

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