Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs GPT-5.2

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.2 OpenAI

54.1

Rank #34 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.2 in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-5.2 leads 66.8 to 29.1.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and GPT-5.2 specifications
Falcon-180BGPT-5.2
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteOpenAI
Noometry Index32.254.1
Released2023-09-062025-12-11
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.75
Output $ / M tokens—$14
Results tracked1667

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5.2: 51.6 (#37)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5.2
SWE-bench Verified—73.8%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—72.8%
LMArena WebDev—1416
SWE-bench Multilingual—66.7%
GSO—27.4%
WeirdML—72.2%
LMArena Coding—1447
ALE-Bench—1,294
AlgoTune—2.05

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5.2: 40.2 (#24)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5.2
Terminal-Bench—64.9%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—55.9%
GDPval—49.7%
Remote Labor Index—2.5%
τ²-bench Airline—83%
τ²-bench Banking—32.2%
τ²-bench Retail—81.6%
τ²-bench Telecom—89.7%
DeepResearch Bench—41.1%
LMArena Search—1207
METR Time Horizons—75.3%
Vending-Bench 2—3,591

Reasoning GPT-5.2 leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), GPT-5.2: 50.2 (#35)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5.2
LMArena Hard Prompts10071445
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13153.45
ARC-AGI-2—52.9%
SimpleBench—45.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—73.3%
NYT Connections (extended)—83.6%
ARC-AGI-1—86.2%
Chess Puzzles—49%
EnigmaEval—10.4%
EBR-Bench—23%
Mystery Game Puzzles—23%
DTBench—90.9%
LMCA—43.9%
ForecastBench—60.1
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5.2: 60.0 (#38)

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5.2: 59.3 (#32)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5.2
GPQA Diamond—91.4%
Humanity's Last Exam—27.8%
SimpleQA Verified—37.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.4%
LMArena Expert—1445
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5.2: 51.3 (#7)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5.2
LMArena Vision—1268
VPCT—84%
Furniture Assembly—38.3%
LMArena Document—1405

Multilingual GPT-5.2 leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), GPT-5.2: 53.4 (#67)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5.2
LMArena Non-English10001425
LMArena Chinese—1460
LMArena French—1455
LMArena German—1448
LMArena Japanese—1420
LMArena Korean—1392
LMArena Russian—1440
LMArena Spanish—1433

Instruction Following GPT-5.2 leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), GPT-5.2: 74.7 (#89)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5.2
LMArena Instruction Following10471417

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5.2: 44.0 (#78)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5.2
CL-bench—18.2%
LMArena Longer Query—1428

Writing & Preference GPT-5.2 leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), GPT-5.2: 66.8 (#32)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5.2
LMArena Text10541439
LMArena Creative Writing10891401
LMArena Multi-Turn10131458
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1703

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than GPT-5.2?

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and GPT-5.2 share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.2 has 67.

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