Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs GPT-4o mini

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o mini OpenAI

25.5

Rank #343 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and GPT-4o mini in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where GPT-4o mini leads 42.0 to 25.2.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and GPT-4o mini specifications
Falcon-180BGPT-4o mini
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteOpenAI
Noometry Index32.225.5
Released2023-09-062024-07-18
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—128K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.15
Output $ / M tokens—$0.60
Results tracked1660

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4o mini: 22.0 (#335)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4o mini
Aider Polyglot—3.6%
WeirdML—11.8%
BigCodeBench Instruct—46.1%
LiveBench Coding—43.1%
LMArena Coding—1290
BigCodeBench Complete—57.4%
HumanEval+—83.5%
MBPP+—72.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4o mini: 27.5 (#101)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4o mini
BALROG—17.4%

Reasoning Falcon-180B leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), GPT-4o mini: 8.7 (#347)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4o mini
LMArena Hard Prompts10071267
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13126.56
PIQA84.9%88.7%
ARC-AGI-2—0%
SimpleBench—10.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—28.8%
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—32.8%
Mystery Game Puzzles—12%
DTBench—54.4%
LiveBench Data Analysis—50%
LMCA—10.4%
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
LiveBench—41.3%
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4o mini: 10.4 (#314)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4o mini
GSM8K54.4%91.3%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—0.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—6.9%
Omni-MATH—28%
LiveBench Math—36.3%
LMArena Math—1267
MATH Level 5—52.6%

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4o mini: 17.7 (#284)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4o mini
BoolQ89%88.7%
MMLU70.6%81.8%
GPQA Diamond—37.7%
SimpleQA Verified—8.3%
MMLU-Pro—60.3%
Confabulations—37.2%
GPQA (HELM)—36.8%
LMArena Expert—1235
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4o mini: 25.9 (#122)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4o mini
LMArena Vision—1066
Video-MME—64.8%
GeoBench—64%
VPCT—34%

Multilingual GPT-4o mini leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), GPT-4o mini: 42.0 (#199)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4o mini
LMArena Non-English10001266
LMArena Chinese—1265
LMArena French—1297
LMArena German—1272
LMArena Japanese—1216
LMArena Korean—1195
LMArena Russian—1275
LMArena Spanish—1276

Instruction Following GPT-4o mini leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), GPT-4o mini: 61.9 (#239)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4o mini
LMArena Instruction Following10471258
LiveBench Instruction Following—56.8%
IFEval—78.2%

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4o mini: 39.1 (#186)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4o mini
LMArena Longer Query—1289

Writing & Preference GPT-4o mini leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), GPT-4o mini: 39.5 (#248)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4o mini
LMArena Text10541286
LMArena Creative Writing10891268
LMArena Multi-Turn10131285
Short-Story Creative Writing—67.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—873
WildBench—79.1%
LiveBench Language—28.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than GPT-4o mini?

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and GPT-4o mini share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4o mini has 60.

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