Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Falcon-180B

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.4 to 31.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic

34.4

Rank #225 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 4 categories and Falcon-180B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads 53.0 to 29.3.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Falcon-180B specifications
Claude 3.5 SonnetFalcon-180B
ProviderAnthropicTechnology Innovation Institute
Noometry Index34.431.8
Released2024-06-202023-09-06
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked6016

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.5 (#145), Falcon-180B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetFalcon-180B
Aider Polyglot51.6%—
GSO4.6%—
WeirdML40%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.8%—
LiveBench Coding67.1%—
LMArena Coding1343—
BigCodeBench Complete58.6%—
CadEval48%—
HumanEval+81.7%—
MBPP+74.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.1 (#61), Falcon-180B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetFalcon-180B
TheAgentCompany24%—
Cybench17.5%—
BALROG32.6%—
METR Time Horizons45.2%—

Reasoning Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 22.5 (#176), Falcon-180B: 18.3 (#266)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetFalcon-180B
LMArena Hard Prompts13051007
Epoch Capabilities Index133.55111.89
SimpleBench41.4%—
EnigmaEval0.9%—
LiveBench Reasoning56.7%—
DTBench67.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis55%—
ForecastBench60.7—
HellaSwag—89%
LAMBADA—79.8%
LiveBench59%—
PIQA—84.9%
WinoGrande—87.1%

Math Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 18.0 (#282), Falcon-180B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetFalcon-180B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%—
Omni-MATH27.6%—
LiveBench Math52.3%—
LMArena Math1306—
MATH Level 556.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)2.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—
GSM8K—54.4%

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.5 (#236), Falcon-180B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetFalcon-180B
MMLU87.3%70.6%
GPQA Diamond55.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam4.1%—
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
Confabulations19.9%—
GPQA (HELM)56.5%—
LMArena Expert1264—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—67.8%
BoolQ—89%
OpenBookQA—64.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.0 (#115), Falcon-180B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetFalcon-180B
LMArena Vision1125—
Video-MME60%—
GeoBench62%—
VPCT33%—

Multilingual Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.4 (#180), Falcon-180B: 25.3 (#281)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetFalcon-180B
LMArena Non-English12831000
LMArena Chinese1271—
LMArena French1304—
LMArena German1297—
LMArena Japanese1234—
LMArena Korean1200—
LMArena Russian1305—
LMArena Spanish1289—

Instruction Following Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 69.0 (#177), Falcon-180B: 53.6 (#281)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetFalcon-180B
LMArena Instruction Following12971047
LiveBench Instruction Following69.3%—
IFEval85.5%—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#162), Falcon-180B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetFalcon-180B
LMArena Longer Query1311—

Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 53.0 (#159), Falcon-180B: 29.3 (#290)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetFalcon-180B
LMArena Text12981054
LMArena Creative Writing12921089
LMArena Multi-Turn13261013
Short-Story Creative Writing80.3%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1451—
WildBench79.2%—
LiveBench Language53.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Falcon-180B?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.4 to 31.8 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Falcon-180B share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Falcon-180B has 16.

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