Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.1 vs Falcon-180B

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic

41.0

Rank #142 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.1 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 Opus 4.1 leads 62.4 to 29.1.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.1 and Falcon-180B specifications
Claude Opus 4.1Falcon-180B
ProviderAnthropicTechnology Innovation Institute
Noometry Index41.032.2
Released2025-08-052023-09-06
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked4816

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.4 (#73), Falcon-180B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Falcon-180B
SWE-bench Verified73.3%—
LMArena WebDev1390—
WeirdML45.9%—
LMArena Coding1479—
ALE-Bench674.77—
AlgoTune1.34—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 35.0 (#41), Falcon-180B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Falcon-180B
Terminal-Bench38%—
GDPval43.6%—
Cybench42%—
DeepResearch Bench48.3%—
LMArena Search1148—
METR Time Horizons66.8%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 32.2 (#76), Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Falcon-180B
LMArena Hard Prompts14431007
Epoch Capabilities Index144.12112.13
SimpleBench60%—
Chess Puzzles7%—
EnigmaEval7.2%—
EBR-Bench7.9%—
Mystery Game Puzzles21%—
DTBench80%—
LMCA37.1%—
ForecastBench62—
HellaSwag—89%
LAMBADA—79.8%
PIQA—84.9%
WinoGrande—87.1%

Math Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 22.3 (#277), Falcon-180B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Falcon-180B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)12.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202568.9%—
LMArena Math1431—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)7.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—
GSM8K—54.4%

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 42.0 (#101), Falcon-180B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Falcon-180B
GPQA Diamond77.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam11.5%—
Confabulations17.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.8%—
LMArena Expert1439—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—67.8%
BoolQ—89%
MMLU—70.6%
OpenBookQA—64.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 26.8 (#119), Falcon-180B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Falcon-180B
VPCT35%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 52.0 (#95), Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Falcon-180B
LMArena Non-English14051000
LMArena Chinese1427—
LMArena French1431—
LMArena German1413—
LMArena Japanese1378—
LMArena Korean1380—
LMArena Russian1422—
LMArena Spanish1448—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 75.6 (#58), Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Falcon-180B
LMArena Instruction Following14351047

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#63), Falcon-180B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Falcon-180B
LMArena Longer Query1455—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 62.4 (#74), Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Falcon-180B
LMArena Text14191054
LMArena Creative Writing14121089
LMArena Multi-Turn14441013
Short-Story Creative Writing84.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than Falcon-180B?

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.1 and Falcon-180B share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.1 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Falcon-180B has 16.

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