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Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Falcon-180B

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.9 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic

61.9

Rank #10 Confirmed

Falcon-180B Technology Innovation Institute

32.2

Rank #260 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 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 writing & preference, where Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads 66.0 to 29.1.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 5.5Falcon-180B
ProviderAnthropicTechnology Innovation Institute
Noometry Index61.932.2
Released2026-09-282023-09-06
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked3216

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 67.3 (#6), Falcon-180B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Falcon-180B
FrontierCode52.1%—
CursorBench55.5%—
LMArena WebDev1774—
FrontierSWE61.9%—
SciCode61%—
LMArena Coding1513—
ALE-Bench1,819—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 45.0 (#16), Falcon-180B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Falcon-180B
APEX-Agents75.5%—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 54.0 (#28), Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Falcon-180B
LMArena Hard Prompts14951007
Epoch Capabilities Index165.03112.13
NYT Connections (extended)80.5%—
CritPt31.4%—
Mystery Game Puzzles65%—
HellaSwag—89%
LAMBADA—79.8%
PIQA—84.9%
WinoGrande—87.1%

Math Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 87.9 (#6), Falcon-180B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Falcon-180B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)88.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 480.5%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench100%—
LMArena Math1510—
FrontierMath Erdős2.9%—
GSM8K—54.4%

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#12), Falcon-180B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Falcon-180B
GPQA Diamond95.6%—
SimpleQA Verified46.5%—
LMArena Expert1540—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—67.8%
BoolQ—89%
MMLU—70.6%
OpenBookQA—64.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 51.5 (#6), Falcon-180B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Falcon-180B
LMArena Vision1289—
Furniture Assembly75%—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 55.3 (#30), Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Falcon-180B
LMArena Non-English14521000
LMArena Chinese1522—
LMArena Russian1451—

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 78.3 (#11), Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Falcon-180B
LMArena Instruction Following14951047

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 45.9 (#28), Falcon-180B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Falcon-180B
LMArena Longer Query1498—

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#40), Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Falcon-180B
LMArena Text14711054
LMArena Creative Writing14651089
LMArena Multi-Turn14741013

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 better than Falcon-180B?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.9 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

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

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5.5 has 32 scored results on Noometry and Falcon-180B has 16.

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