Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs Grok 3
Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 32.2 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 3 in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Grok 3 leads 52.3 to 25.2.
- Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | Grok 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 39.9 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | 2025-04-09 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 16 | 40 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Grok 3: 41.9 (#115)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 53.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 37.2% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1432 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Grok 3: 30.5 (#76)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 29.5% |
Reasoning Falcon-180B leads
Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Grok 3: 13.7 (#333)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1434 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | 138.33 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| SimpleBench | — | 36.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 61.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 5.5% |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Grok 3: 38.0 (#145)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 55.6% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 46.4% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1391 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 88.7% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 3.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 0% |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Grok 3: 46.2 (#82)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 75.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.8% |
| Confabulations | — | 14.2% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.8% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 65% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1421 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multilingual Grok 3 leads
Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Grok 3: 52.3 (#87)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1410 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1448 |
| LMArena French | — | 1460 |
| LMArena German | — | 1431 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1387 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1373 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1416 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1417 |
Instruction Following Grok 3 leads
Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Grok 3: 75.0 (#73)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1409 |
| IFEval | — | 88.4% |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Grok 3: 38.7 (#192)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 58.3% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1439 |
Writing & Preference Grok 3 leads
Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Grok 3: 55.8 (#141)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1426 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1414 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1425 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 76.4% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1186 |
| WildBench | — | 84.9% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than Grok 3?
Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Grok 3 share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Grok 3 has 40.