Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs Grok 4.3
Grok 4.3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 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 0 categories and Grok 4.3 in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Grok 4.3 leads 58.5 to 29.1.
- Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | Grok 4.3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 43.8 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | 2026-04-17 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 30K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2.50 |
| Results tracked | 16 | 40 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Grok 4.3: 41.6 (#121)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok 4.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1357 |
| SciCode | — | 47.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 49.9% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1415 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 944.17 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Grok 4.3: 27.7 (#99)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok 4.3 |
|---|---|---|
| GDP.pdf | — | 8% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1165 |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 35.26 |
Reasoning Grok 4.3 leads
Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Grok 4.3: 35.9 (#68)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok 4.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1396 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | 149.16 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 55.2% |
| CritPt | — | 8% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 25% |
| DTBench | — | 90.7% |
| LMCA | — | 38.3% |
| ForecastBench | — | 60.3 |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Grok 4.3: 46.0 (#74)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok 4.3 |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 42.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 14.6% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 93.3% |
| ProofBench | — | 11% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1388 |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Grok 4.3: 52.5 (#62)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok 4.3 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 88.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 33.2% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1385 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Grok 4.3: 31.6 (#104)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok 4.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1229 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 0% |
Multilingual Grok 4.3 leads
Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Grok 4.3: 50.5 (#120)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok 4.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1385 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1422 |
| LMArena French | — | 1412 |
| LMArena German | — | 1395 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1379 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1356 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1399 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1398 |
Instruction Following Grok 4.3 leads
Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Grok 4.3: 72.1 (#140)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok 4.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1366 |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Grok 4.3: 42.5 (#123)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok 4.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1393 |
Writing & Preference Grok 4.3 leads
Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Grok 4.3: 58.5 (#118)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Grok 4.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1397 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1380 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1406 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1075 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than Grok 4.3?
Grok 4.3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Grok 4.3 share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.3 has 40.