Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs GPT-5-Codex

GPT-5-Codex is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.9 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5-Codex OpenAI

37.9

Rank #192 Reported

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5-Codex leads 30.9 to 19.1.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and GPT-5-Codex specifications
Falcon-180BGPT-5-Codex
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteOpenAI
Noometry Index32.237.9
Released2023-09-062025-09-15
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.25
Output $ / M tokens—$10
Results tracked163

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5-Codex: 42.4 (#103)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5-Codex
WeirdML—54.5%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5-Codex: 31.0 (#72)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5-Codex
Terminal-Bench—44.3%

Reasoning GPT-5-Codex leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), GPT-5-Codex: 30.9 (#83)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5-Codex
Kagi LLM Benchmark—70.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts1007—
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13—
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5-Codex: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5-Codex
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5-Codex: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5-Codex
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), GPT-5-Codex: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5-Codex
LMArena Non-English1000—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), GPT-5-Codex: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5-Codex
LMArena Instruction Following1047—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), GPT-5-Codex: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5-Codex
LMArena Text1054—
LMArena Creative Writing1089—
LMArena Multi-Turn1013—

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than GPT-5-Codex?

GPT-5-Codex is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.9 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and GPT-5-Codex share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5-Codex has 3.

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