Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs Grok-2 (Dec 2024)
Grok-2 (Dec 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 31.8 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 1 category and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads 48.8 to 29.3.
- Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 31.8 | 33.4 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | 2024-08-13 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 16 | 34 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 32.9 (#254)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | — | 22.2% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 46.4% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1288 |
Reasoning Falcon-180B leads
Falcon-180B: 18.3 (#266), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 16.4 (#294)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1272 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.89 | 130.48 |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.7% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 54.8% |
| DTBench | — | 65.2% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 54.5% |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 54.3% |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 19.6 (#278)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 11.5% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 54.9% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1283 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 63.5% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.7% |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 29.8 (#225)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 53.8% |
| Confabulations | — | 20.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1254 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multilingual Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads
Falcon-180B: 25.3 (#281), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 43.3 (#183)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1282 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1289 |
| LMArena French | — | 1317 |
| LMArena German | — | 1287 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1244 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1237 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1286 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1281 |
Instruction Following Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads
Falcon-180B: 53.6 (#281), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 67.1 (#197)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1270 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 69.6% |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 38.7 (#186)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1276 |
Writing & Preference Grok-2 (Dec 2024) leads
Falcon-180B: 29.3 (#290), Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 48.8 (#192)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1305 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1284 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1290 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 63.6% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 45.6% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than Grok-2 (Dec 2024)?
Grok-2 (Dec 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 31.8 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) has 34.