Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs GPT-4.1

GPT-4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 7 shared benchmarks.

Falcon-180B

Technology Innovation Institute

32.2

Rank #260 Confirmed

GPT-4.1 OpenAI

35.9

Rank #219 Confirmed

Summary

They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and GPT-4.1 in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4.1 leads 57.6 to 29.1.
Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and GPT-4.1 specifications
	Falcon-180B	GPT-4.1
Provider	Technology Innovation Institute	OpenAI
Noometry Index	32.2	35.9
Released	2023-09-06	2025-04-14
Weights	Open	Proprietary
Context window	—	1.05M
Max output	—	33K
Input $ / M tokens	—	$2
Output $ / M tokens	—	$8
Results tracked	16	52

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4.1: 34.4 (#238)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-4.1
SWE-bench Verified	—	48.5%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)	—	39.6%
Aider Polyglot	—	52.4%
WeirdML	—	39%
LMArena Coding	—	1391
CadEval	—	42%
ALE-Bench	—	558.1

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4.1: 34.7 (#43)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-4.1
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	—	54%

Reasoning Falcon-180B leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), GPT-4.1: 11.7 (#339)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-4.1
LMArena Hard Prompts	1007	1384
Epoch Capabilities Index	112.13	136.78
ARC-AGI-2	—	0.4%
SimpleBench	—	27%
Kagi LLM Benchmark	—	52.3%
ARC-AGI-1	—	5.5%
Chess Puzzles	—	6%
EnigmaEval	—	2.2%
DTBench	—	68.3%
LMCA	—	25.6%
ForecastBench	—	61.5
HellaSwag	89%	—
LAMBADA	79.8%	—
PIQA	84.9%	—
WinoGrande	87.1%	—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4.1: 22.3 (#280)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-4.1
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)	—	6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	38.3%
Omni-MATH	—	47.1%
LMArena Math	—	1370
MATH Level 5	—	83%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)	—	5.5%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)	—	0%
GSM8K	54.4%	—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4.1: 37.1 (#160)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-4.1
GPQA Diamond	—	66.9%
Humanity's Last Exam	—	5.4%
SimpleQA Verified	—	31.1%
MMLU-Pro	—	81.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	—	5.6%
GPQA (HELM)	—	65.9%
LMArena Expert	—	1364
ARC (AI2) Challenge	67.8%	—
BoolQ	89%	—
MMLU	70.6%	—
OpenBookQA	64.2%	—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4.1: 38.2 (#67)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-4.1
LMArena Vision	—	1211
GeoBench	—	72%

Multilingual GPT-4.1 leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), GPT-4.1: 49.4 (#133)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-4.1
LMArena Non-English	1000	1370
LMArena Chinese	—	1382
LMArena French	—	1382
LMArena German	—	1381
LMArena Japanese	—	1319
LMArena Korean	—	1339
LMArena Russian	—	1377
LMArena Spanish	—	1376

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), GPT-4.1: 71.3 (#153)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-4.1
LMArena Instruction Following	1047	1367
IFEval	—	83.8%

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4.1: 40.0 (#163)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-4.1
Fiction.LiveBench	—	63.9%
LMArena Longer Query	—	1385

Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), GPT-4.1: 57.6 (#125)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-4.1
LMArena Text	1054	1383
LMArena Creative Writing	1089	1363
LMArena Multi-Turn	1013	1398
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	—	1420
WildBench	—	85.4%

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