Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs GPT-4
Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation InstituteSummary
- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and GPT-4 in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where GPT-4 leads 40.6 to 25.2.
- Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | GPT-4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 29.1 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | 2023-03-14 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 8K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $60 |
| Results tracked | 16 | 38 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4: 31.6 (#283)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | — | 12.4% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 46% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1254 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 57.2% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 79.3% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4: —
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| METR Time Horizons | — | 36.1% |
Reasoning Falcon-180B leads
Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), GPT-4: 17.8 (#289)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1241 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | 125.89 |
| HellaSwag | 89% | 95.3% |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | 87.5% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 12% |
| DTBench | — | 62.7% |
| LMCA | — | 17.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 75.1% |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.8 |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4: 10.8 (#309)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 54.4% | 92% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 1.1% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1269 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 23% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4: 18.4 (#282)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 70.6% | 86.4% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 35.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1211 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
| TriviaQA | — | 84.8% |
Multilingual GPT-4 leads
Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), GPT-4: 40.6 (#215)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1246 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1242 |
| LMArena French | — | 1283 |
| LMArena German | — | 1251 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1209 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1184 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1251 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1261 |
Instruction Following GPT-4 leads
Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), GPT-4: 65.3 (#222)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1241 |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4: 37.7 (#212)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1244 |
Writing & Preference GPT-4 leads
Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), GPT-4: 34.9 (#268)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1263 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1244 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1257 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 752 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than GPT-4?
Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and GPT-4 share?
11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4 has 38.