Model comparison

Falcon-40B vs Kimi K3

Kimi K3 has enough public results to be ranked (#15); 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 Kimi K3 specifications
Falcon-40BKimi K3
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteMoonshot AI
Noometry Index—59.5
Released2023-03-152026-07-16
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—1.05M
Max output—1.05M
Input $ / M tokens—$3
Output $ / M tokens—$15
Results tracked1253

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Kimi K3: 61.0 (#10)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BKimi K3
DeepSWE—68.5%
FrontierCode—44.2%
LMArena WebDev—1654
FrontierSWE—25.9%
SciCode—59.5%
WeirdML—82.6%
LMArena Coding—1508
ALE-Bench—1,524

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Kimi K3: 41.8 (#20)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BKimi K3
APEX-Agents—50.6%
τ²-bench Banking—37.1%
PostTrainBench—32%
GBAEval—48.3%
GDP.pdf—19%
Vending-Bench 2—5,165

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Kimi K3: 63.0 (#17)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BKimi K3
Epoch Capabilities Index104.45157.45
ARC-AGI-2—60.4%
SimpleBench—60.7%
NYT Connections (extended)—93.6%
ARC-AGI-1—94.5%
CritPt—23.4%
Chess Puzzles—39%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1496
Mystery Game Puzzles—26%
DTBench—91.2%
LMCA—52.7%
Surface Evolver Bench—95%
BIG-Bench Hard37.1%—
ForecastBench—61.1
HellaSwag85.3%—
LAMBADA77.3%—
PIQA83%—
WinoGrande76.9%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Kimi K3: 74.2 (#16)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BKimi K3
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—72.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4—39%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—87.8%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—97.2%
ProofBench—87%
LMArena Math—1491
GSM8K33.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Kimi K3: 63.2 (#21)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BKimi K3
GPQA Diamond—93.1%
SimpleQA Verified—50.6%
LMArena Expert—1521
ARC (AI2) Challenge61.9%—
BoolQ83.1%—
MMLU56.9%—
OpenBookQA56.6%—
TriviaQA79.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Kimi K3: 37.8 (#70)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BKimi K3
Blueprint-Bench 2—29.5%
Furniture Assembly—34.2%

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Kimi K3: 56.3 (#21)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BKimi K3
LMArena Non-English—1466
LMArena Chinese—1529
LMArena French—1491
LMArena German—1488
LMArena Japanese—1487
LMArena Korean—1458
LMArena Russian—1482
LMArena Spanish—1472

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Kimi K3: 77.7 (#14)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BKimi K3
LMArena Instruction Following—1483

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Kimi K3: 45.8 (#29)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BKimi K3
LMArena Longer Query—1494

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-40B: —, Kimi K3: 76.6 (#4)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-40BKimi K3
LMArena Text—1476
LMArena Creative Writing—1454
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—2082
EQ-Bench 4—1339
LMArena Multi-Turn—1488

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-40B better than Kimi K3?

Kimi K3 has enough public results to be ranked (#15); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Kimi K3 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K3 has 53.

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