Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs GPT-5.5 Instant
GPT-5.5 Instant is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.7 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation InstituteSummary
- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.5 Instant in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-5.5 Instant leads 61.8 to 29.1.
- Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | GPT-5.5 Instant | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 42.7 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | 2026-05-05 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 16 | 27 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5.5 Instant: 44.3 (#74)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 48.6% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1433 |
Reasoning GPT-5.5 Instant leads
Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), GPT-5.5 Instant: 24.9 (#155)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1426 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | 142.52 |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 12% |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5.5 Instant: 26.5 (#259)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 26.3% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 2.4% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 68.1% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1420 |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5.5 Instant: 48.9 (#74)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 82.5% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1409 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5.5 Instant: 40.0 (#52)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1250 |
| LMArena Document | — | 1403 |
Multilingual GPT-5.5 Instant leads
Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), GPT-5.5 Instant: 52.8 (#80)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1417 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1456 |
| LMArena French | — | 1428 |
| LMArena German | — | 1411 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1408 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1392 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1431 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1429 |
Instruction Following GPT-5.5 Instant leads
Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), GPT-5.5 Instant: 74.2 (#100)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1406 |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5.5 Instant: 43.4 (#96)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1422 |
Writing & Preference GPT-5.5 Instant leads
Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), GPT-5.5 Instant: 61.8 (#85)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1419 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1419 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1433 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than GPT-5.5 Instant?
GPT-5.5 Instant is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.7 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and GPT-5.5 Instant share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.5 Instant has 27.