Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs GPT-4 Turbo

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4 Turbo OpenAI

30.5

Rank #292 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and GPT-4 Turbo in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4 Turbo leads 47.7 to 29.1.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and GPT-4 Turbo specifications
Falcon-180BGPT-4 Turbo
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteOpenAI
Noometry Index32.230.5
Released2023-09-062023-11-06
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$10
Output $ / M tokens—$30
Results tracked1636

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4 Turbo: 33.8 (#249)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4 Turbo
WeirdML—18%
BigCodeBench Instruct—48.2%
LMArena Coding—1268
BigCodeBench Complete—58.2%
HumanEval+—86.6%
MBPP+—73.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4 Turbo: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4 Turbo
METR Time Horizons—36.7%

Reasoning Falcon-180B leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), GPT-4 Turbo: 15.3 (#317)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Hard Prompts10071251
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13127.25
SimpleBench—25.1%
Chess Puzzles—6%
DTBench—61.6%
LMCA—9.8%
ForecastBench—59.4
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4 Turbo: 9.0 (#322)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4 Turbo
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—0.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—6.7%
LMArena Math—1272
MATH Level 5—46.7%
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#268)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4 Turbo
MMLU70.6%81.3%
GPQA Diamond—46.6%
Confabulations—28.4%
LMArena Expert—1223
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4 Turbo: 30.6 (#110)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Vision—1090

Multilingual GPT-4 Turbo leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), GPT-4 Turbo: 40.5 (#216)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Non-English10001245
LMArena Chinese—1242
LMArena French—1276
LMArena German—1259
LMArena Japanese—1194
LMArena Korean—1187
LMArena Russian—1259
LMArena Spanish—1260

Instruction Following GPT-4 Turbo leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), GPT-4 Turbo: 65.8 (#216)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Instruction Following10471249

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#206)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Longer Query—1254

Writing & Preference GPT-4 Turbo leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), GPT-4 Turbo: 47.7 (#206)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Text10541272
LMArena Creative Writing10891269
LMArena Multi-Turn10131267

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than GPT-4 Turbo?

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

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

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4 Turbo has 36.

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