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Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs Grok 4.5

Grok 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 55.0 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Falcon-180B Technology Innovation Institute

32.2

Rank #260 Confirmed

Grok 4.5 xAI

55.0

Rank #25 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 4.5 in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 4.5 leads 56.1 to 19.1.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-180BGrok 4.5
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstitutexAI
Noometry Index32.255.0
Released2023-09-062026-07-08
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—500K
Max output—500K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked1652

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Grok 4.5: 52.2 (#35)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGrok 4.5
DeepSWE—53.8%
FrontierCode—42.4%
LMArena WebDev—1553
SciCode—54.1%
WeirdML—46.4%
LMArena Coding—1474
ALE-Bench—1,309

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Grok 4.5: 44.4 (#17)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGrok 4.5
APEX-Agents—56.2%
τ²-bench Banking—47.9%
PostTrainBench—23.4%
GBAEval—65.4%
GDP.pdf—14%
LMArena Search—1213
Vending-Bench 2—3,887

Reasoning Grok 4.5 leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Grok 4.5: 56.1 (#25)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGrok 4.5
LMArena Hard Prompts10071462
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13153.92
ARC-AGI-2—52.6%
SimpleBench—70%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—83.5%
NYT Connections (extended)—79.9%
ARC-AGI-1—87.2%
CritPt—15.4%
Chess Puzzles—36%
DTBench—96.5%
LMCA—45.2%
Surface Evolver Bench—74.4%
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Grok 4.5: 60.9 (#35)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGrok 4.5
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—57.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4—24.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—97.8%
ProofBench—31%
LMArena Math—1459
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Grok 4.5: 62.3 (#24)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGrok 4.5
GPQA Diamond—93.4%
SimpleQA Verified—48.3%
LMArena Expert—1466
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Grok 4.5: 37.6 (#72)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGrok 4.5
LMArena Vision—1288
Blueprint-Bench 2—27.3%
Furniture Assembly—22.5%
LMArena Document—1452

Multilingual Grok 4.5 leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Grok 4.5: 54.4 (#42)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGrok 4.5
LMArena Non-English10001440
LMArena Chinese—1496
LMArena French—1456
LMArena German—1446
LMArena Japanese—1428
LMArena Korean—1404
LMArena Russian—1448
LMArena Spanish—1450

Instruction Following Grok 4.5 leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Grok 4.5: 76.0 (#48)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGrok 4.5
LMArena Instruction Following10471446

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Grok 4.5: 44.8 (#56)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGrok 4.5
LMArena Longer Query—1463

Writing & Preference Grok 4.5 leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Grok 4.5: 65.8 (#42)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGrok 4.5
LMArena Text10541448
LMArena Creative Writing10891442
LMArena Multi-Turn10131456
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1579

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than Grok 4.5?

Grok 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 55.0 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Grok 4.5 share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.5 has 52.

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