Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Falcon-180B

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 3 categories and Falcon-180B in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3 Opus leads 47.2 to 29.1.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 Opus and Falcon-180B specifications
Claude 3 OpusFalcon-180B
ProviderAnthropicTechnology Innovation Institute
Noometry Index29.532.2
Released2024-02-292023-09-06
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
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Results tracked4616

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Falcon-180B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusFalcon-180B
WeirdML19.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
LMArena Coding1264—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Falcon-180B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusFalcon-180B
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Falcon-180B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusFalcon-180B
LMArena Hard Prompts12451007
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91112.13
WinoGrande88.5%87.1%
SimpleBench23.5%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
DTBench61.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA17%—
ForecastBench58.4—
HellaSwag—89%
LAMBADA—79.8%
LiveBench49.2%—
PIQA—84.9%

Math Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Falcon-180B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusFalcon-180B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%—
LiveBench Math43.6%—
LMArena Math1273—
MATH Level 537.5%—
GSM8K—54.4%

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Falcon-180B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusFalcon-180B
MMLU84.6%70.6%
GPQA Diamond47.2%—
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
LMArena Expert1223—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—67.8%
BoolQ—89%
OpenBookQA—64.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Falcon-180B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusFalcon-180B
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusFalcon-180B
LMArena Non-English12581000
LMArena Chinese1248—
LMArena French1275—
LMArena German1258—
LMArena Japanese1204—
LMArena Korean1187—
LMArena Russian1280—
LMArena Spanish1246—

Instruction Following Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusFalcon-180B
LMArena Instruction Following12481047
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Falcon-180B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusFalcon-180B
LMArena Longer Query1259—

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusFalcon-180B
LMArena Text12621054
LMArena Creative Writing12351089
LMArena Multi-Turn12751013
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Falcon-180B?

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Falcon-180B share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Falcon-180B has 16.

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