Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs o1

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

o1 OpenAI

40.9

Rank #143 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and o1 in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where o1 leads 55.6 to 29.1.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and o1 specifications
Falcon-180Bo1
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteOpenAI
Noometry Index32.240.9
Released2023-09-062024-09-12
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—100K
Input $ / M tokens—$15
Output $ / M tokens—$60
Results tracked1652

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, o1: 46.1 (#70)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180Bo1
Aider Polyglot—61.7%
WeirdML—47.6%
LiveBench Coding—69.7%
LMArena Coding—1367
CadEval—56%
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—80.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, o1: 24.6 (#117)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180Bo1
Cybench—10%
METR Time Horizons—51.1%

Reasoning o1 leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), o1: 27.9 (#111)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180Bo1
LMArena Hard Prompts10071371
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13141.91
SimpleBench—41.7%
ARC-AGI-1—30.7%
Chess Puzzles—15%
EnigmaEval—5.7%
LiveBench Reasoning—91.6%
DTBench—74.7%
LiveBench Data Analysis—65.5%
LMCA—22.3%
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
LiveBench—75.7%
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, o1: 36.1 (#175)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180Bo1
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—14.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—73.3%
LiveBench Math—80.3%
LMArena Math—1388
MATH Level 5—94.7%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—9.3%
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, o1: 41.5 (#110)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180Bo1
GPQA Diamond—76.8%
Humanity's Last Exam—8%
SimpleQA Verified—41.1%
Confabulations—11.7%
LMArena Expert—1361
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, o1: 34.2 (#93)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180Bo1
LMArena Vision—1168
GeoBench—80%
VPCT—37%
SpatialViz-Bench—41.4%

Multilingual o1 leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), o1: 48.6 (#142)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180Bo1
LMArena Non-English10001358
LMArena Chinese—1394
LMArena French—1344
LMArena German—1337
LMArena Japanese—1346
LMArena Korean—1396
LMArena Russian—1356
LMArena Spanish—1345

Instruction Following o1 leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), o1: 74.8 (#86)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180Bo1
LMArena Instruction Following10471367
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.5%

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, o1: 50.3 (#9)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180Bo1
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%
LMArena Longer Query—1378

Writing & Preference o1 leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), o1: 55.6 (#144)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180Bo1
LMArena Text10541366
LMArena Creative Writing10891348
LMArena Multi-Turn10131369
Short-Story Creative Writing—70.2%
LiveBench Language—65.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than o1?

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and o1 share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.

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