Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs GPT-6 Astra

GPT-6 Astra is the stronger model overall, scoring 70.8 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

GPT-6 Astra OpenAI

70.8

Rank #1 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-6 Astra in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-6 Astra leads 85.1 to 19.1.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and GPT-6 Astra specifications
Falcon-180BGPT-6 Astra
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteOpenAI
Noometry Index32.270.8
Released2023-09-062026-09-03
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$10
Output $ / M tokens—$50
Results tracked1656

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-6 Astra: 73.7 (#2)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-6 Astra
DeepSWE—74.1%
FrontierCode—53.3%
LMArena WebDev—1786
FrontierSWE—65.5%
SciCode—56.5%
GSO—79.4%
WeirdML—93.6%
LMArena Coding—1487
MirrorCode—46.7%
ALE-Bench—2,951

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-6 Astra: 52.9 (#3)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-6 Astra
APEX-Agents—64.7%
Remote Labor Index—20.8%
BALROG—68.3%
GDP.pdf—34.2%
Vending-Bench 2—15,515

Reasoning GPT-6 Astra leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), GPT-6 Astra: 85.1 (#1)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-6 Astra
LMArena Hard Prompts10071462
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13166.45
ARC-AGI-2—95%
NYT Connections (extended)—98.1%
ARC-AGI-1—98.5%
CritPt—31.7%
Chess Puzzles—72%
EBR-Bench—76.2%
Mystery Game Puzzles—84%
DTBench—97.3%
LMCA—64.4%
Bench to the Future 3—0.14
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-6 Astra: 93.5 (#2)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-6 Astra
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—93.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4—97.6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—100%
ProofBench—99%
LMArena Math—1465
FrontierMath Erdős—2.9%
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-6 Astra: 75.3 (#1)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-6 Astra
GPQA Diamond—95.8%
Humanity's Last Exam—54.8%
SimpleQA Verified—75.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.7%
LMArena Expert—1483
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-6 Astra: 55.0 (#3)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-6 Astra
LMArena Vision—1281
Blueprint-Bench 2—49.7%
Furniture Assembly—80%
LMArena Document—1468

Multilingual GPT-6 Astra leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), GPT-6 Astra: 53.7 (#61)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-6 Astra
LMArena Non-English10001430
LMArena Chinese—1484
LMArena French—1456
LMArena German—1440
LMArena Japanese—1379
LMArena Korean—1426
LMArena Russian—1436
LMArena Spanish—1407

Instruction Following GPT-6 Astra leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), GPT-6 Astra: 76.3 (#44)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-6 Astra
LMArena Instruction Following10471450

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-6 Astra: 44.5 (#62)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-6 Astra
LMArena Longer Query—1456

Writing & Preference GPT-6 Astra leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), GPT-6 Astra: 75.3 (#7)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-6 Astra
LMArena Text10541441
LMArena Creative Writing10891418
LMArena Multi-Turn10131448
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—2173

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than GPT-6 Astra?

GPT-6 Astra is the stronger model overall, scoring 70.8 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and GPT-6 Astra share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and GPT-6 Astra has 56.

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