Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs GPT-4.5

GPT-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.2 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-4.5 OpenAI

37.2

Rank #208 Confirmed

Summary

They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and GPT-4.5 in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4.5 leads 56.9 to 29.1.
Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and GPT-4.5 specifications
	Falcon-180B	GPT-4.5
Provider	Technology Innovation Institute	OpenAI
Noometry Index	32.2	37.2
Released	2023-09-06	2025-02-27
Weights	Open	Proprietary
Context window	—	—
Max output	—	—
Input $ / M tokens	—	—
Output $ / M tokens	—	—
Results tracked	16	42

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4.5: 42.2 (#109)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-4.5
Aider Polyglot	—	44.9%
WeirdML	—	39.4%
LiveBench Coding	—	75.2%
LMArena Coding	—	1396

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4.5: 27.9 (#97)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-4.5
Cybench	—	17.5%

Reasoning Falcon-180B leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), GPT-4.5: 13.9 (#330)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-4.5
LMArena Hard Prompts	1007	1403
Epoch Capabilities Index	112.13	136.74
ARC-AGI-2	—	0.8%
SimpleBench	—	34.5%
ARC-AGI-1	—	10.3%
EnigmaEval	—	3.2%
LiveBench Reasoning	—	71.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis	—	64.3%
ForecastBench	—	61.7
HellaSwag	89%	—
LAMBADA	79.8%	—
LiveBench	—	69%
PIQA	84.9%	—
WinoGrande	87.1%	—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4.5: 32.6 (#211)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-4.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	37.8%
LiveBench Math	—	69.3%
LMArena Math	—	1412
MATH Level 5	—	78.6%
GSM8K	54.4%	—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4.5: 32.5 (#211)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-4.5
GPQA Diamond	—	68.7%
Humanity's Last Exam	—	5.4%
Confabulations	—	13.6%
LMArena Expert	—	1394
ARC (AI2) Challenge	67.8%	—
BoolQ	89%	—
MMLU	70.6%	—
OpenBookQA	64.2%	—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4.5: 37.6 (#71)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-4.5
LMArena Vision	—	1195
VPCT	—	45%

Multilingual GPT-4.5 leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), GPT-4.5: 52.5 (#83)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-4.5
LMArena Non-English	1000	1413
LMArena Chinese	—	1421
LMArena French	—	1418
LMArena German	—	1457
LMArena Japanese	—	1416
LMArena Korean	—	1392
LMArena Russian	—	1419

Instruction Following GPT-4.5 leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), GPT-4.5: 72.6 (#134)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-4.5
LMArena Instruction Following	1047	1404
LiveBench Instruction Following	—	72.3%

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4.5: 40.4 (#155)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-4.5
Fiction.LiveBench	—	63.9%
LMArena Longer Query	—	1406

Writing & Preference GPT-4.5 leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), GPT-4.5: 56.9 (#134)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-4.5
LMArena Text	1054	1417
LMArena Creative Writing	1089	1394
LMArena Multi-Turn	1013	1444
Short-Story Creative Writing	—	75.6%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	—	1258
LiveBench Language	—	61.5%

Frequently asked questions

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