Model comparison

Falcon-40B vs Gemini 3 Pro

Gemini 3 Pro has enough public results to be ranked (#28); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
  • Falcon-40B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-40B and Gemini 3 Pro specifications
Falcon-40BGemini 3 Pro
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteGoogle
Noometry Index—54.8
Released2023-03-152025-11-18
WeightsOpenProprietary
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Results tracked1267

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemini 3 Pro
SWE-bench Verified—72.9%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—74.2%
LMArena WebDev—1440
SWE-bench Multilingual—68.7%
GSO—18.6%
WeirdML—69.9%
LMArena Coding—1481
ALE-Bench—1,177
AlgoTune—1.83

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemini 3 Pro
Terminal-Bench—69.4%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—72.5%
GDPval—40.3%
Remote Labor Index—1.3%
τ²-bench Airline—80.5%
τ²-bench Banking—18%
τ²-bench Retail—75.9%
τ²-bench Telecom—91%
DeepResearch Bench—46.3%
BALROG—58.1%
LMArena Search—1207
METR Time Horizons—71%
Vending-Bench 2—5,478

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemini 3 Pro
Epoch Capabilities Index104.45152.92
ARC-AGI-2—31.1%
SimpleBench—76.4%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—80.1%
NYT Connections (extended)—94.4%
ARC-AGI-1—75%
CritPt—6.9%
Chess Puzzles—31%
EnigmaEval—18.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1480
BIG-Bench Hard37.1%—
ForecastBench—61.2
HellaSwag85.3%—
LAMBADA77.3%—
PIQA83%—
WinoGrande76.9%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemini 3 Pro
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—67%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—91.4%
ProofBench—20%
Omni-MATH—55.5%
LMArena Math—1476
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—37.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—18.8%
GSM8K33.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemini 3 Pro
GPQA Diamond—92.6%
Humanity's Last Exam—37.5%
MMLU-Pro—90.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—13.6%
GPQA (HELM)—80.3%
LMArena Expert—1475
ARC (AI2) Challenge61.9%—
BoolQ83.1%—
MMLU56.9%—
OpenBookQA56.6%—
TriviaQA79.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Vision—1305
GeoBench—84%
VPCT—91%
LMArena Document—1434

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Non-English—1474
LMArena Chinese—1523
LMArena French—1492
LMArena German—1515
LMArena Japanese—1510
LMArena Korean—1448
LMArena Russian—1493
LMArena Spanish—1470

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemini 3 Pro
IFEval—87.7%
LMArena Instruction Following—1458

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemini 3 Pro
CL-bench—15.8%
LMArena Longer Query—1471

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Text—1479
LMArena Creative Writing—1482
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1525
WildBench—85.9%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1484

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-40B better than Gemini 3 Pro?

Gemini 3 Pro has enough public results to be ranked (#28); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Gemini 3 Pro share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3 Pro has 67.

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