Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs Granite 3.1 8b Instruct
Falcon-180B and Granite 3.1 8b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.2 vs 32.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation InstituteSummary
- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and Granite 3.1 8b Instruct in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads 35.5 to 29.1.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 32.4 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 16 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 34.5 (#233)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1186 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 24.1 (#120)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 27.1% |
Reasoning Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 22.1 (#207)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1145 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | — |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 33.0 (#209)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1152 |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#220)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1142 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multilingual Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.9 (#260)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1099 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1145 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1092 |
Instruction Following Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 58.6 (#259)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1131 |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.2 (#241)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1162 |
Writing & Preference Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.5 (#266)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1150 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1129 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1108 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than Granite 3.1 8b Instruct?
Falcon-180B and Granite 3.1 8b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.2 vs 32.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Granite 3.1 8b Instruct share?
6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has 13.