Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs Inkling
Inkling is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 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 Inkling in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Inkling leads 65.2 to 29.1.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | Inkling | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Thinking Machines Lab |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 44.1 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | 2026-07-15 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 66K |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.87 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $4.68 |
| Results tracked | 16 | 41 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Inkling: 34.5 (#234)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode | — | 14% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1413 |
| FrontierSWE | — | 4.1% |
| SciCode | — | 47% |
| WeirdML | — | 32.3% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1464 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 946 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Inkling: 29.6 (#85)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 33.8% |
| τ²-bench Banking | — | 25% |
Reasoning Inkling leads
Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Inkling: 40.4 (#56)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1451 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | 148.54 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 36.5% |
| SimpleBench | — | 50% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 79.5% |
| CritPt | — | 5.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 21% |
| DTBench | — | 87.5% |
| LMCA | — | 37.6% |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Inkling: 31.3 (#225)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 33.3% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 4.9% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 88.9% |
| ProofBench | — | 0% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1479 |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Inkling: 55.1 (#49)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 88.3% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 40.3% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1465 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multilingual Inkling leads
Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Inkling: 54.0 (#52)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1434 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1490 |
| LMArena French | — | 1458 |
| LMArena German | — | 1446 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1429 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1404 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1429 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1448 |
Instruction Following Inkling leads
Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Inkling: 75.1 (#71)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1426 |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Inkling: 43.8 (#86)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1434 |
Writing & Preference Inkling leads
Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Inkling: 65.2 (#51)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1441 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1387 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1436 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1611 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1226 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than Inkling?
Inkling is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Inkling share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Inkling has 41.