Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs GPT-4.1 nano

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.8 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 nano OpenAI

27.7

Rank #322 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and GPT-4.1 nano in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where GPT-4.1 nano leads 41.8 to 25.3.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and GPT-4.1 nano specifications
Falcon-180BGPT-4.1 nano
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteOpenAI
Noometry Index31.827.7
Released2023-09-062025-04-14
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked1638

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 23.8 (#325)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4.1 nano
Aider Polyglot—8.9%
SciCode—25.9%
WeirdML—19%
LMArena Coding—1306

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 26.3 (#98)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4.1 nano
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—33%

Reasoning Falcon-180B leads

Falcon-180B: 18.3 (#266), GPT-4.1 nano: 8.6 (#344)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Hard Prompts10071286
Epoch Capabilities Index111.89129.62
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—33.3%
ARC-AGI-1—0%
CritPt—0%
DTBench—52.5%
LMCA—5.5%
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 25.5 (#246)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4.1 nano
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—28.9%
Omni-MATH—36.7%
LMArena Math—1274
MATH Level 5—70%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1%
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 21.8 (#268)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4.1 nano
GPQA Diamond—48.9%
SimpleQA Verified—6%
MMLU-Pro—55%
GPQA (HELM)—50.7%
LMArena Expert—1272
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 28.6 (#108)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Vision—1063

Multilingual GPT-4.1 nano leads

Falcon-180B: 25.3 (#281), GPT-4.1 nano: 41.8 (#200)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Non-English10001260
LMArena Chinese—1270
LMArena German—1288
LMArena Japanese—1199
LMArena Russian—1261

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 nano leads

Falcon-180B: 53.6 (#281), GPT-4.1 nano: 68.0 (#188)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Instruction Following10471267
IFEval—84.3%

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 23.7 (#291)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4.1 nano
Fiction.LiveBench—25%
LMArena Longer Query—1283

Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 nano leads

Falcon-180B: 29.3 (#290), GPT-4.1 nano: 40.7 (#238)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Text10541285
LMArena Creative Writing10891260
LMArena Multi-Turn10131277
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—946
WildBench—81.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than GPT-4.1 nano?

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.8 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and GPT-4.1 nano share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 nano has 38.

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