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Model comparison

Claude Opus 5.5 vs Falcon-180B

Claude Opus 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 68.6 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic

68.6

Rank #3 Confirmed

Falcon-180B Technology Innovation Institute

32.2

Rank #260 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 5.5 scores higher in 4 categories and Falcon-180B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 5.5 leads 80.2 to 19.1.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 5.5Falcon-180B
ProviderAnthropicTechnology Innovation Institute
Noometry Index68.632.2
Released2026-09-222023-09-06
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$4—
Output $ / M tokens$20—
Results tracked4416

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Opus 5.5: 71.9 (#3), Falcon-180B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Falcon-180B
FrontierCode54.6%—
CursorBench57.8%—
LMArena WebDev1813—
FrontierSWE62.3%—
SciCode66.9%—
LMArena Coding1547—
MirrorCode77.4%—
ALE-Bench2,147—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 5.5: 45.3 (#15), Falcon-180B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Falcon-180B
APEX-Agents73.5%—
GDP.pdf30.6%—
Vending-Bench 29,235—

Reasoning Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 80.2 (#3), Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Falcon-180B
LMArena Hard Prompts15351007
Epoch Capabilities Index167.33112.13
ARC-AGI-293.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)88.5%—
ARC-AGI-198.5%—
CritPt31.7%—
EBR-Bench71.4%—
Mystery Game Puzzles71%—
DTBench98.9%—
LMCA68.2%—
HellaSwag—89%
LAMBADA—79.8%
PIQA—84.9%
WinoGrande—87.1%

Math Not comparable

Claude Opus 5.5: 91.8 (#3), Falcon-180B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Falcon-180B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)91.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 495%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench100%—
LMArena Math1506—
FrontierMath Erdős2.9%—
GSM8K—54.4%

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 5.5: 66.4 (#10), Falcon-180B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Falcon-180B
GPQA Diamond90.6%—
SimpleQA Verified72.2%—
LMArena Expert1547—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—67.8%
BoolQ—89%
MMLU—70.6%
OpenBookQA—64.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 5.5: 57.8 (#1), Falcon-180B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Falcon-180B
LMArena Vision1321—
Blueprint-Bench 251.2%—
Furniture Assembly83.3%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 59.1 (#2), Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Falcon-180B
LMArena Non-English15071000
LMArena Chinese1588—
LMArena French1514—
LMArena Russian1520—
LMArena Spanish1507—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 80.0 (#3), Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Falcon-180B
LMArena Instruction Following15371047

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 5.5: 47.1 (#19), Falcon-180B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Falcon-180B
LMArena Longer Query1532—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 78.2 (#3), Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Falcon-180B
LMArena Text15151054
LMArena Creative Writing15331089
LMArena Multi-Turn14991013
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2050—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 5.5 better than Falcon-180B?

Claude Opus 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 68.6 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 5.5 and Falcon-180B share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 5.5 has 44 scored results on Noometry and Falcon-180B has 16.

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