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Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs Grok 4.6

Grok 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.9 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Falcon-180B Technology Innovation Institute

32.2

Rank #260 Confirmed

Grok 4.6 xAI

56.9

Rank #21 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 4.6 in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 4.6 leads 61.4 to 19.1.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-180BGrok 4.6
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstitutexAI
Noometry Index32.256.9
Released2023-09-062026-08-12
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—500K
Max output—500K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked1649

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Grok 4.6: 58.5 (#16)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGrok 4.6
DeepSWE—67.5%
FrontierCode—48%
CursorBench—41.4%
LMArena WebDev—1617
FrontierSWE—25.3%
SciCode—56.5%
WeirdML—67.3%
LMArena Coding—1465
ALE-Bench—1,508

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Grok 4.6: 39.4 (#27)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGrok 4.6
APEX-Agents—65.3%
GDP.pdf—17.2%
Vending-Bench 2—9,047

Reasoning Grok 4.6 leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Grok 4.6: 61.4 (#20)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGrok 4.6
LMArena Hard Prompts10071447
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13156.44
ARC-AGI-2—67.1%
SimpleBench—75.9%
NYT Connections (extended)—80%
ARC-AGI-1—87.5%
CritPt—19.7%
Chess Puzzles—40%
EBR-Bench—30.5%
Mystery Game Puzzles—34%
DTBench—97.3%
LMCA—48.5%
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Grok 4.6: 67.0 (#24)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGrok 4.6
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—66%
FrontierMath Tier 4—31.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—99.2%
ProofBench—51%
LMArena Math—1423
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Grok 4.6: 63.3 (#20)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGrok 4.6
GPQA Diamond—94%
SimpleQA Verified—49.3%
LMArena Expert—1467
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Grok 4.6: 43.6 (#23)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGrok 4.6
LMArena Vision—1263
Blueprint-Bench 2—33.2%
Furniture Assembly—40%
LMArena Document—1452

Multilingual Grok 4.6 leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Grok 4.6: 53.0 (#74)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGrok 4.6
LMArena Non-English10001420
LMArena Chinese—1480
LMArena French—1461
LMArena German—1431
LMArena Japanese—1376
LMArena Korean—1397
LMArena Russian—1422
LMArena Spanish—1404

Instruction Following Grok 4.6 leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Grok 4.6: 75.4 (#63)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGrok 4.6
LMArena Instruction Following10471431

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Grok 4.6: 44.5 (#66)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGrok 4.6
LMArena Longer Query—1454

Writing & Preference Grok 4.6 leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Grok 4.6: 62.3 (#80)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGrok 4.6
LMArena Text10541428
LMArena Creative Writing10891428
LMArena Multi-Turn10131425

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than Grok 4.6?

Grok 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.9 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Grok 4.6 share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.6 has 49.

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