Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Falcon-180B

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.2

Rank #20 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 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 4.6 leads 73.5 to 29.1.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Falcon-180B specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Falcon-180B
ProviderAnthropicTechnology Innovation Institute
Noometry Index58.232.2
Released2026-02-042023-09-06
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6816

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), Falcon-180B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Falcon-180B
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
LMArena WebDev1547—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
LMArena Coding1536—
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.1 (#4), Falcon-180B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Falcon-180B
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
GBAEval44.1%—
LMArena Search1253—
METR Time Horizons78.9%—
Vending-Bench 28,018—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.8 (#23), Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Falcon-180B
LMArena Hard Prompts15271007
Epoch Capabilities Index155.24112.13
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
Chess Puzzles17%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—
ForecastBench60—
HellaSwag—89%
LAMBADA—79.8%
PIQA—84.9%
WinoGrande—87.1%

Math Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 63.0 (#31), Falcon-180B: —

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26), Falcon-180B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Falcon-180B
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—
LMArena Expert1546—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—67.8%
BoolQ—89%
MMLU—70.6%
OpenBookQA—64.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), Falcon-180B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Falcon-180B
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Falcon-180B
LMArena Non-English14891000
LMArena Chinese1551—
LMArena French1513—
LMArena German1502—
LMArena Japanese1484—
LMArena Korean1464—
LMArena Russian1497—
LMArena Spanish1510—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4), Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Falcon-180B
LMArena Instruction Following15231047

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Falcon-180B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Falcon-180B
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—
LMArena Longer Query1520—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Falcon-180B
LMArena Text15031054
LMArena Creative Writing15051089
LMArena Multi-Turn15131013
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Falcon-180B?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Falcon-180B share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Falcon-180B has 16.

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