Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs o1-mini
o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 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 o1-mini in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where o1-mini leads 48.4 to 29.1.
- Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | o1-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 34.0 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | 2024-09-12 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 16 | 39 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 32.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 36.3% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 48% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1362 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 89% |
| MBPP+ | — | 78.8% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 10% |
Reasoning Falcon-180B leads
Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1333 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | 135.82 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.8% |
| SimpleBench | — | 18.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 14% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 72.3% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 57.9% |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 57.8% |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 46.9% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 62% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1358 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 89.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 62.4% |
| Confabulations | — | 18.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1316 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multilingual o1-mini leads
Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1289 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1314 |
| LMArena French | — | 1293 |
| LMArena German | — | 1278 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1245 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1223 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1283 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1303 |
Instruction Following o1-mini leads
Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1304 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 65.4% |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1320 |
Writing & Preference o1-mini leads
Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1317 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1244 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 64.9% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 40.9% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than o1-mini?
o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and o1-mini share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.