Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs GPT-5.1

GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.8 to 31.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 7 shared benchmarks.

Falcon-180B

Technology Innovation Institute

31.8

Rank #254 Confirmed

GPT-5.1 OpenAI

48.8

Rank #47 Confirmed

Summary

They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.1 in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-5.1 leads 64.7 to 29.3.
Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and GPT-5.1 specifications
	Falcon-180B	GPT-5.1
Provider	Technology Innovation Institute	OpenAI
Noometry Index	31.8	48.8
Released	2023-09-06	2025-11-13
Weights	Open	Proprietary
Context window	—	400K
Max output	—	128K
Input $ / M tokens	—	$1.25
Output $ / M tokens	—	$10
Results tracked	16	63

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5.1: 46.9 (#59)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-5.1
SWE-bench Verified	—	68%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)	—	66%
LMArena WebDev	—	1395
SciCode	—	43.3%
GSO	—	13.7%
WeirdML	—	60.8%
LiveBench Coding	—	72.5%
LMArena Coding	—	1454
ALE-Bench	—	1,192

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5.1: 32.5 (#55)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-5.1
Terminal-Bench	—	47.6%
DeepResearch Bench	—	42.8%
LMArena Search	—	1199
Vending-Bench 2	—	1,473

Reasoning GPT-5.1 leads

Falcon-180B: 18.3 (#266), GPT-5.1: 39.9 (#50)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-5.1
LMArena Hard Prompts	1007	1457
Epoch Capabilities Index	111.89	149.66
ARC-AGI-2	—	17.6%
SimpleBench	—	53.2%
ARC-AGI-1	—	72.8%
CritPt	—	4.9%
Chess Puzzles	—	32%
EnigmaEval	—	11.2%
LiveBench Reasoning	—	95.8%
Mystery Game Puzzles	—	19%
DTBench	—	90.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis	—	72.1%
LMCA	—	43.9%
ForecastBench	—	58.1
HellaSwag	89%	—
LAMBADA	79.8%	—
LiveBench	—	78.8%
PIQA	84.9%	—
WinoGrande	87.1%	—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5.1: 50.3 (#45)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-5.1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	88.6%
Omni-MATH	—	46.4%
LiveBench Math	—	94.5%
LMArena Math	—	1446
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)	—	31%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)	—	12.5%
GSM8K	54.4%	—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5.1: 50.5 (#65)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-5.1
GPQA Diamond	—	87.6%
Humanity's Last Exam	—	23.7%
SimpleQA Verified	—	48%
MMLU-Pro	—	57.9%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	—	10.9%
GPQA (HELM)	—	44.2%
LMArena Expert	—	1470
ARC (AI2) Challenge	67.8%	—
BoolQ	89%	—
MMLU	70.6%	—
OpenBookQA	64.2%	—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5.1: 44.0 (#17)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-5.1
LMArena Vision	—	1250
VPCT	—	58.7%
LMArena Document	—	1403

Multilingual GPT-5.1 leads

Falcon-180B: 25.3 (#281), GPT-5.1: 54.0 (#51)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-5.1
LMArena Non-English	1000	1431
LMArena Chinese	—	1495
LMArena French	—	1451
LMArena German	—	1439
LMArena Japanese	—	1453
LMArena Korean	—	1401
LMArena Russian	—	1435
LMArena Spanish	—	1430

Instruction Following GPT-5.1 leads

Falcon-180B: 53.6 (#281), GPT-5.1: 84.0 (#1)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-5.1
LMArena Instruction Following	1047	1442
LiveBench Instruction Following	—	93.3%
IFEval	—	93.5%

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5.1: 47.6 (#14)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-5.1
CL-bench	—	23.7%
CL-bench Life	—	17.3%
LMArena Longer Query	—	1448

Writing & Preference GPT-5.1 leads

Falcon-180B: 29.3 (#290), GPT-5.1: 64.7 (#53)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	GPT-5.1
LMArena Text	1054	1443
LMArena Creative Writing	1089	1427
LMArena Multi-Turn	1013	1449
WildBench	—	86.3%
LiveBench Language	—	80.2%

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