Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs gpt-oss-20b
Falcon-180B and gpt-oss-20b score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.2 vs 32.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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-oss-20b in 4 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where gpt-oss-20b leads 42.2 to 25.2.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | gpt-oss-20b | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 32.5 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | 2025-08-05 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.018 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.09 |
| Results tracked | 16 | 34 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, gpt-oss-20b: 37.6 (#192)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 34.4% |
| WeirdML | — | 40.9% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1306 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 566.05 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, gpt-oss-20b: 9.3 (#154)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 3.4% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), gpt-oss-20b: 19.3 (#261)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1274 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | 137.82 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 53.2% |
| CritPt | — | 1.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| DTBench | — | 68% |
| LMCA | — | 14.5% |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, gpt-oss-20b: 39.4 (#103)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 65.3% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 56.5% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1317 |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, gpt-oss-20b: 34.6 (#195)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 60.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 74% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 59.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1258 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multilingual gpt-oss-20b leads
Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), gpt-oss-20b: 42.2 (#197)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1268 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1314 |
| LMArena German | — | 1255 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1244 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1236 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1278 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1267 |
Instruction Following gpt-oss-20b leads
Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), gpt-oss-20b: 61.8 (#240)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1236 |
| IFEval | — | 73.2% |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, gpt-oss-20b: 37.9 (#209)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1250 |
Writing & Preference gpt-oss-20b leads
Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), gpt-oss-20b: 35.5 (#265)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | gpt-oss-20b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1201 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1268 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 666 |
| WildBench | — | 73.7% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than gpt-oss-20b?
Falcon-180B and gpt-oss-20b score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.2 vs 32.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and gpt-oss-20b share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and gpt-oss-20b has 34.