Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs GPT-4

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4 OpenAI

29.1

Rank #316 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and GPT-4 in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where GPT-4 leads 40.6 to 25.2.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and GPT-4 specifications
Falcon-180BGPT-4
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteOpenAI
Noometry Index32.229.1
Released2023-09-062023-03-14
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—8K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$30
Output $ / M tokens—$60
Results tracked1638

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4: 31.6 (#283)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4
WeirdML—12.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct—46%
LMArena Coding—1254
BigCodeBench Complete—57.2%
HumanEval+—79.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4
METR Time Horizons—36.1%

Reasoning Falcon-180B leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), GPT-4: 17.8 (#289)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4
LMArena Hard Prompts10071241
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13125.89
HellaSwag89%95.3%
WinoGrande87.1%87.5%
Chess Puzzles—4%
Mystery Game Puzzles—12%
DTBench—62.7%
LMCA—17.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—75.1%
ForecastBench—57.8
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4: 10.8 (#309)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4
GSM8K54.4%92%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—1.1%
LMArena Math—1269
MATH Level 5—23%

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4: 18.4 (#282)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4
MMLU70.6%86.4%
GPQA Diamond—35.7%
LMArena Expert—1211
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—
TriviaQA—84.8%

Multilingual GPT-4 leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), GPT-4: 40.6 (#215)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4
LMArena Non-English10001246
LMArena Chinese—1242
LMArena French—1283
LMArena German—1251
LMArena Japanese—1209
LMArena Korean—1184
LMArena Russian—1251
LMArena Spanish—1261

Instruction Following GPT-4 leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), GPT-4: 65.3 (#222)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4
LMArena Instruction Following10471241

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4: 37.7 (#212)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4
LMArena Longer Query—1244

Writing & Preference GPT-4 leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), GPT-4: 34.9 (#268)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4
LMArena Text10541263
LMArena Creative Writing10891244
LMArena Multi-Turn10131257
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—752

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than GPT-4?

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

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

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4 has 38.

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