Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs Grok-3 mini
Grok-3 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation InstituteSummary
- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and Grok-3 mini in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Grok-3 mini leads 78.5 to 53.4.
- Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | Grok-3 mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 41.2 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | 2025-04-09 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 16 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Grok-3 mini: 40.8 (#131)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 49.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 42.6% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1379 |
Reasoning Falcon-180B leads
Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Grok-3 mini: 13.6 (#334)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1375 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | 140.35 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.4% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 61.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 16.5% |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Grok-3 mini: 42.1 (#85)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 77.8% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 31.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1386 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 90.9% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 5.9% |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Grok-3 mini: 46.4 (#81)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 76.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 79.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 10.8% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 67.5% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1395 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multilingual Grok-3 mini leads
Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Grok-3 mini: 48.1 (#145)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1352 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1387 |
| LMArena French | — | 1357 |
| LMArena German | — | 1349 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1342 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1335 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1353 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1381 |
Instruction Following Grok-3 mini leads
Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Grok-3 mini: 78.5 (#9)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1357 |
| IFEval | — | 95.1% |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Grok-3 mini: 41.0 (#147)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 66.7% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1372 |
Writing & Preference Grok-3 mini leads
Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Grok-3 mini: 52.5 (#169)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1370 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1342 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1355 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 73.5% |
| WildBench | — | 65.1% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than Grok-3 mini?
Grok-3 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Grok-3 mini share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Grok-3 mini has 35.