Model comparison

Falcon-40B vs GLM-5.3

GLM-5.3 has enough public results to be ranked (#26); 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.

Side by side

Falcon-40B and GLM-5.3 specifications
Falcon-40BGLM-5.3
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index—54.8
Released2023-03-152026-08-14
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—1M
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.40
Output $ / M tokens—$4.40
Results tracked1242

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GLM-5.3: 59.5 (#14)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGLM-5.3
DeepSWE—69%
FrontierCode—40.1%
CursorBench—42.6%
LMArena WebDev—1622
FrontierSWE—30.2%
SciCode—59%
WeirdML—75.4%
LMArena Coding—1496
ALE-Bench—1,317

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GLM-5.3: 36.4 (#38)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGLM-5.3
APEX-Agents—56.6%
Vending-Bench 2—8,164

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GLM-5.3: 46.1 (#46)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGLM-5.3
Epoch Capabilities Index104.45155.61
NYT Connections (extended)—74.2%
CritPt—19.1%
Chess Puzzles—21%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1489
Mystery Game Puzzles—33%
DTBench—87.7%
LMCA—55.5%
Bench to the Future 3—0.15
BIG-Bench Hard37.1%—
HellaSwag85.3%—
LAMBADA77.3%—
PIQA83%—
WinoGrande76.9%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GLM-5.3: 62.3 (#33)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGLM-5.3
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—68.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4—29.3%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—91.1%
ProofBench—49%
LMArena Math—1489
GSM8K33.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GLM-5.3: 58.3 (#37)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGLM-5.3
GPQA Diamond—90.9%
SimpleQA Verified—41%
LMArena Expert—1516
ARC (AI2) Challenge61.9%—
BoolQ83.1%—
MMLU56.9%—
OpenBookQA56.6%—
TriviaQA79.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GLM-5.3: 55.7 (#28)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGLM-5.3
LMArena Non-English—1457
LMArena Chinese—1528
LMArena French—1499
LMArena German—1499
LMArena Japanese—1453
LMArena Korean—1472
LMArena Russian—1463
LMArena Spanish—1460

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GLM-5.3: 77.5 (#23)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGLM-5.3
LMArena Instruction Following—1477

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GLM-5.3: 45.4 (#41)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGLM-5.3
LMArena Longer Query—1482

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, GLM-5.3: 75.7 (#6)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BGLM-5.3
LMArena Text—1471
LMArena Creative Writing—1457
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—2075
LMArena Multi-Turn—1472

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-40B better than GLM-5.3?

GLM-5.3 has enough public results to be ranked (#26); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and GLM-5.3 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and GLM-5.3 has 42.

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