Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs gpt-oss-20b

Falcon-180B and gpt-oss-20b score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.8 vs 32.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

gpt-oss-20b OpenAI

32.1

Rank #249 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and gpt-oss-20b in 4 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where gpt-oss-20b leads 42.4 to 25.3.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and gpt-oss-20b specifications
Falcon-180Bgpt-oss-20b
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteOpenAI
Noometry Index31.832.1
Released2023-09-062025-08-05
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.018
Output $ / M tokens—$0.09
Results tracked1634

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, gpt-oss-20b: 37.1 (#185)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180Bgpt-oss-20b
SciCode—34.4%
WeirdML—40.9%
LMArena Coding—1307
ALE-Bench—566.05

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, gpt-oss-20b: 9.2 (#146)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180Bgpt-oss-20b
Terminal-Bench—3.4%

Reasoning Too close to call

Falcon-180B: 18.3 (#266), gpt-oss-20b: 18.8 (#251)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180Bgpt-oss-20b
LMArena Hard Prompts10071274
Epoch Capabilities Index111.89137.81
Kagi LLM Benchmark—53.2%
CritPt—1.4%
Chess Puzzles—4%
DTBench—68%
LMCA—14.5%
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, gpt-oss-20b: 37.6 (#93)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180Bgpt-oss-20b
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—65.3%
Omni-MATH—56.5%
LMArena Math—1317
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, gpt-oss-20b: 34.6 (#186)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180Bgpt-oss-20b
GPQA Diamond—60.8%
MMLU-Pro—74%
GPQA (HELM)—59.4%
LMArena Expert—1258
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multilingual gpt-oss-20b leads

Falcon-180B: 25.3 (#281), gpt-oss-20b: 42.4 (#192)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180Bgpt-oss-20b
LMArena Non-English10001269
LMArena Chinese—1311
LMArena German—1249
LMArena Japanese—1245
LMArena Korean—1239
LMArena Russian—1279
LMArena Spanish—1267

Instruction Following gpt-oss-20b leads

Falcon-180B: 53.6 (#281), gpt-oss-20b: 62.0 (#235)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180Bgpt-oss-20b
LMArena Instruction Following10471236
IFEval—73.2%

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, gpt-oss-20b: 37.9 (#203)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180Bgpt-oss-20b
LMArena Longer Query—1251

Writing & Preference gpt-oss-20b leads

Falcon-180B: 29.3 (#290), gpt-oss-20b: 35.8 (#260)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180Bgpt-oss-20b
LMArena Text10541288
LMArena Creative Writing10891201
LMArena Multi-Turn10131268
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—666
WildBench—73.7%

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than gpt-oss-20b?

Falcon-180B and gpt-oss-20b score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.8 vs 32.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and gpt-oss-20b share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and gpt-oss-20b has 34.

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