Model comparison
Claude 3 Sonnet vs Falcon-180B
Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation InstituteSummary
- They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 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 Sonnet leads 42.1 to 29.1.
- Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Sonnet | Falcon-180B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Technology Innovation Institute |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 32.2 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2023-09-06 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 30 | 16 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Falcon-180B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 10.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | — |
Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | 1007 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.7 | 112.13 |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | 87.1% |
| DTBench | 53.6% | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 89% |
| LAMBADA | — | 79.8% |
| PIQA | — | 84.9% |
Math Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Falcon-180B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1213 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Falcon-180B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 75.9% | 70.6% |
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 67.8% |
| BoolQ | — | 89% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 64.2% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Falcon-180B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | — |
Multilingual Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | 1000 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1189 | — |
| LMArena French | 1229 | — |
| LMArena German | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | — |
Instruction Following Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | 1047 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Falcon-180B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | — |
Writing & Preference Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | 1054 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | 1089 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | 1013 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Falcon-180B?
Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Falcon-180B share?
9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Falcon-180B has 16.