Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs Granite 4.0 Micro

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.8 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Granite 4.0 Micro IBM

28.8

Rank #312 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Granite 4.0 Micro leads 46.7 to 29.3.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and Granite 4.0 Micro specifications
Falcon-180BGranite 4.0 Micro
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteIBM
Noometry Index31.828.8
Released2023-09-062025-10-02
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—118K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.017
Output $ / M tokens—$0.11
Results tracked168

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Category by category

Reasoning Too close to call

Falcon-180B: 18.3 (#266), Granite 4.0 Micro: 18.5 (#261)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGranite 4.0 Micro
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1007—
Epoch Capabilities Index111.89—
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Granite 4.0 Micro: 11.2 (#301)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGranite 4.0 Micro
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—2.8%
Omni-MATH—20.9%
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#299)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGranite 4.0 Micro
GPQA Diamond—28.3%
MMLU-Pro—39.5%
GPQA (HELM)—30.7%
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-180B: 25.3 (#281), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGranite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Non-English1000—

Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads

Falcon-180B: 53.6 (#281), Granite 4.0 Micro: 70.0 (#164)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGranite 4.0 Micro
IFEval—84.9%
LMArena Instruction Following1047—

Writing & Preference Granite 4.0 Micro leads

Falcon-180B: 29.3 (#290), Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#212)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGranite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Text1054—
LMArena Creative Writing1089—
WildBench—67%
LMArena Multi-Turn1013—

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than Granite 4.0 Micro?

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.8 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Granite 4.0 Micro share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 Micro has 8.

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