Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs GLM-4.6

GLM-4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.4 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.6 Z.ai (Zhipu)

41.4

Rank #135 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and GLM-4.6 in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GLM-4.6 leads 61.1 to 29.1.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and GLM-4.6 specifications
Falcon-180BGLM-4.6
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index32.241.4
Released2023-09-062025-09-30
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—205K
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.60
Output $ / M tokens—$2.20
Results tracked1629

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GLM-4.6: 40.1 (#148)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGLM-4.6
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—55.4%
LMArena WebDev—1340
SciCode—38.4%
LMArena Coding—1449
ALE-Bench—340.82

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GLM-4.6: 32.3 (#66)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGLM-4.6
Terminal-Bench—24.5%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—72.4%

Reasoning GLM-4.6 leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), GLM-4.6: 23.7 (#172)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGLM-4.6
LMArena Hard Prompts10071440
Kagi LLM Benchmark—47.4%
CritPt—1.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13—
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GLM-4.6: 39.1 (#111)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGLM-4.6
LMArena Math—1432
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—3.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GLM-4.6: 40.2 (#124)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGLM-4.6
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.5%
LMArena Expert—1431
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multilingual GLM-4.6 leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), GLM-4.6: 53.5 (#66)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGLM-4.6
LMArena Non-English10001426
LMArena Chinese—1499
LMArena French—1459
LMArena German—1447
LMArena Japanese—1393
LMArena Korean—1400
LMArena Russian—1419
LMArena Spanish—1436

Instruction Following GLM-4.6 leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), GLM-4.6: 74.3 (#98)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGLM-4.6
LMArena Instruction Following10471410

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GLM-4.6: 43.4 (#94)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGLM-4.6
LMArena Longer Query—1422

Writing & Preference GLM-4.6 leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), GLM-4.6: 61.1 (#90)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGLM-4.6
LMArena Text10541440
LMArena Creative Writing10891411
LMArena Multi-Turn10131427
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1411

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than GLM-4.6?

GLM-4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.4 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

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

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and GLM-4.6 has 29.

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