Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs GPT-5.6 Sol

GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 65.0 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI

65.0

Rank #7 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.6 Sol in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.6 Sol leads 74.8 to 19.1.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and GPT-5.6 Sol specifications
Falcon-180BGPT-5.6 Sol
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteOpenAI
Noometry Index32.265.0
Released2023-09-062026-07-09
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$4
Output $ / M tokens—$20
Results tracked1665

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 65.1 (#7)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5.6 Sol
DeepSWE—72.7%
FrontierCode—47.5%
CursorBench—41.7%
LMArena WebDev—1618
FrontierSWE—32.2%
SciCode—57.1%
GSO—76.5%
WeirdML—89.4%
LMArena Coding—1498
MirrorCode—20%
ALE-Bench—2,177

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 50.3 (#7)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5.6 Sol
APEX-Agents—51.4%
OSWorld 2.0—27.3%
τ²-bench Banking—46.9%
PostTrainBench—36.2%
BALROG—60%
GBAEval—52.6%
GDP.pdf—30.7%
LMArena Search—1257
Vending-Bench 2—9,619

Reasoning GPT-5.6 Sol leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), GPT-5.6 Sol: 74.8 (#8)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Hard Prompts10071484
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13161.66
ARC-AGI-2—92.5%
SimpleBench—71.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—67%
NYT Connections (extended)—93.8%
ARC-AGI-1—97.5%
CritPt—32.3%
Chess Puzzles—64%
EnigmaEval—37.1%
EBR-Bench—44.8%
Mystery Game Puzzles—58%
DTBench—96%
LMCA—59.2%
Surface Evolver Bench—93.1%
Bench to the Future 3—0.14
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 85.6 (#9)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5.6 Sol
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—89.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4—82.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—100%
ProofBench—83%
LMArena Math—1474
FrontierMath Erdős—0%
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 64.3 (#18)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5.6 Sol
GPQA Diamond—93.5%
SimpleQA Verified—69.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—12.4%
LMArena Expert—1516
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 48.6 (#9)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Vision—1281
Blueprint-Bench 2—33.6%
Furniture Assembly—56.7%
LMArena Document—1483

Multilingual GPT-5.6 Sol leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), GPT-5.6 Sol: 55.3 (#32)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Non-English10001452
LMArena Chinese—1527
LMArena French—1477
LMArena German—1476
LMArena Japanese—1471
LMArena Korean—1442
LMArena Russian—1468
LMArena Spanish—1441

Instruction Following GPT-5.6 Sol leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), GPT-5.6 Sol: 77.7 (#16)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Instruction Following10471482

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 45.4 (#42)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Longer Query—1480

Writing & Preference GPT-5.6 Sol leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), GPT-5.6 Sol: 73.3 (#12)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Text10541457
LMArena Creative Writing10891448
LMArena Multi-Turn10131460
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1972
EQ-Bench 4—1250

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than GPT-5.6 Sol?

GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 65.0 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and GPT-5.6 Sol share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.6 Sol has 65.

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