Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs Falcon-180B

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

43.1

Rank #100 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 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 leads 61.2 to 29.1.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4 and Falcon-180B specifications
Claude Opus 4Falcon-180B
ProviderAnthropicTechnology Innovation Institute
Noometry Index43.132.2
Released2025-05-222023-09-06
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked5616

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 47.2 (#62), Falcon-180B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Falcon-180B
SWE-bench Verified70.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%—
Aider Polyglot72%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML43.7%—
LMArena Coding1442—
AlgoTune1.33—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 34.8 (#42), Falcon-180B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Falcon-180B
Cybench38%—
DeepResearch Bench46.8%—
LMArena Search1127—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 27.3 (#121), Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Falcon-180B
LMArena Hard Prompts13991007
Epoch Capabilities Index142.67112.13
ARC-AGI-28.6%—
SimpleBench58.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark74.3%—
ARC-AGI-135.7%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
DTBench81.6%—
LMCA37.4%—
ForecastBench61.1—
HellaSwag—89%
LAMBADA—79.8%
PIQA—84.9%
WinoGrande—87.1%

Math Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 42.0 (#86), Falcon-180B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Falcon-180B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202564.4%—
Omni-MATH61.6%—
LMArena Math1390—
MATH Level 585%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—
GSM8K—54.4%

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 44.0 (#88), Falcon-180B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Falcon-180B
GPQA Diamond76.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam10.7%—
MMLU-Pro87.5%—
Confabulations15.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)70.8%—
LMArena Expert1386—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—67.8%
BoolQ—89%
MMLU—70.6%
OpenBookQA—64.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 31.5 (#106), Falcon-180B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Falcon-180B
LMArena Vision1192—
GeoBench49%—
VPCT38%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 48.8 (#138), Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Falcon-180B
LMArena Non-English13621000
LMArena Chinese1386—
LMArena French1372—
LMArena German1391—
LMArena Japanese1331—
LMArena Korean1321—
LMArena Russian1392—
LMArena Spanish1389—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 77.1 (#28), Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Falcon-180B
LMArena Instruction Following14061047
IFEval91.8%—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 39.6 (#172), Falcon-180B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Falcon-180B
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—
LMArena Longer Query1422—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 61.2 (#89), Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Falcon-180B
LMArena Text13771054
LMArena Creative Writing13871089
LMArena Multi-Turn13961013
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1580—
WildBench85.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than Falcon-180B?

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and Falcon-180B share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and Falcon-180B has 16.

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