Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs GPT-4.1 mini
GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.5 to 31.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation InstituteSummary
- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and GPT-4.1 mini in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where GPT-4.1 mini leads 45.9 to 25.3.
- Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | GPT-4.1 mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 31.8 | 33.5 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | 2025-04-14 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1.05M |
| Max output | — | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.60 |
| Results tracked | 16 | 47 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 30.4 (#286)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 23.9% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 32.4% |
| SciCode | — | 40.4% |
| WeirdML | — | 37.6% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 48.9% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1367 |
| CadEval | — | 16% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 33.0 (#52)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 50.5% |
Reasoning Falcon-180B leads
Falcon-180B: 18.3 (#266), GPT-4.1 mini: 10.9 (#335)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1349 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.89 | 135.01 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 48.6% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 3.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 7% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 7% |
| DTBench | — | 68.8% |
| LMCA | — | 21.1% |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 23.1 (#264)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 6.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 44.7% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 49.1% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1343 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 87.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 4.5% |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#183)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 12.7% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 61.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1338 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 35.2 (#77)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1181 |
Multilingual GPT-4.1 mini leads
Falcon-180B: 25.3 (#281), GPT-4.1 mini: 45.9 (#161)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1318 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1329 |
| LMArena French | — | 1357 |
| LMArena German | — | 1349 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1291 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1298 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1324 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1319 |
Instruction Following GPT-4.1 mini leads
Falcon-180B: 53.6 (#281), GPT-4.1 mini: 73.9 (#113)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1332 |
| IFEval | — | 90.4% |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#270)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 44.4% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1344 |
Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 mini leads
Falcon-180B: 29.3 (#290), GPT-4.1 mini: 48.8 (#193)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1341 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1300 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1354 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1147 |
| WildBench | — | 83.8% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than GPT-4.1 mini?
GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.5 to 31.8 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and GPT-4.1 mini share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 mini has 47.