Model comparison
Falcon-40B vs Llama 2-70B
Llama 2-70B has enough public results to be ranked (#349); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation Institute
MetaSummary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both.
Side by side
| Falcon-40B | Llama 2-70B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Meta |
| Noometry Index | — | 24.4 |
| Released | 2023-03-15 | 2023-07-18 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 12 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1079 |
Reasoning Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| BIG-Bench Hard | 37.1% | 64.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 104.45 | 113.79 |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | 85.3% |
| LAMBADA | 77.3% | 78.9% |
| PIQA | 83% | 82.8% |
| WinoGrande | 76.9% | 80.2% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1073 |
| DTBench | — | 41.6% |
| CommonsenseQA 2.0 | — | 50% |
| ForecastBench | — | 51.4 |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 33.8% | 69.6% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 0% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1091 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 3.3% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 61.9% | 78.3% |
| BoolQ | 83.1% | 88.6% |
| MMLU | 56.9% | 69.9% |
| OpenBookQA | 56.6% | 60.2% |
| TriviaQA | 79.9% | 87.6% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 26.3% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1039 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1045 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 995 |
| LMArena French | — | 1090 |
| LMArena German | — | 1041 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 927 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 964 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1083 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1143 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1071 |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1062 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Falcon-40B: —, Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)
| Benchmark | Falcon-40B | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1115 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1075 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1088 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-40B better than Llama 2-70B?
Llama 2-70B has enough public results to be ranked (#349); Falcon-40B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-40B and Llama 2-70B share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-40B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.