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Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs GPT-5 Nano

GPT-5 Nano is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 31.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Falcon-180B Technology Innovation Institute

31.8

Rank #254 Confirmed

GPT-5 Nano OpenAI

33.4

Rank #234 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and GPT-5 Nano in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where GPT-5 Nano leads 75.2 to 53.6.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-180BGPT-5 Nano
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteOpenAI
Noometry Index31.833.4
Released2023-09-062025-08-07
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.05
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked1648

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5 Nano: 33.3 (#248)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5 Nano
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—34.8%
WeirdML—38.1%
LMArena Coding—1351
ALE-Bench—718.67

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5 Nano: 25.6 (#99)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5 Nano
Terminal-Bench—21.8%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—51.5%

Reasoning Falcon-180B leads

Falcon-180B: 18.3 (#266), GPT-5 Nano: 16.4 (#291)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Hard Prompts10071329
Epoch Capabilities Index111.89139.39
ARC-AGI-2—2.6%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—62.2%
ARC-AGI-1—20.7%
Chess Puzzles—27%
Mystery Game Puzzles—9%
DTBench—62.7%
LMCA—7.9%
ForecastBench—59.1
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5 Nano: 29.1 (#221)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5 Nano
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—20%
FrontierMath Tier 4—2.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—81.1%
ProofBench—12%
Omni-MATH—54.6%
LMArena Math—1318
MATH Level 5—95.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—8.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5 Nano: 35.8 (#166)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5 Nano
GPQA Diamond—69.4%
SimpleQA Verified—11.7%
MMLU-Pro—77.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.5%
GPQA (HELM)—67.9%
LMArena Expert—1321
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5 Nano: 30.7 (#102)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Vision—1159
VPCT—37.2%

Multilingual GPT-5 Nano leads

Falcon-180B: 25.3 (#281), GPT-5 Nano: 45.5 (#167)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Non-English10001313
LMArena Chinese—1355
LMArena German—1329
LMArena Korean—1269
LMArena Russian—1296
LMArena Spanish—1360

Instruction Following GPT-5 Nano leads

Falcon-180B: 53.6 (#281), GPT-5 Nano: 75.2 (#72)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Instruction Following10471306
IFEval—93.2%

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, GPT-5 Nano: 31.3 (#275)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5 Nano
Fiction.LiveBench—44.4%
LMArena Longer Query—1313

Writing & Preference GPT-5 Nano leads

Falcon-180B: 29.3 (#290), GPT-5 Nano: 39.4 (#244)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Text10541320
LMArena Creative Writing10891250
LMArena Multi-Turn10131311
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—705
WildBench—80.6%

Frequently asked questions

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

GPT-5 Nano is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 31.8 on the Noometry Index.

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

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5 Nano has 48.

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