Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs o3

o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

o3 OpenAI

47.5

Rank #61 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and o3 in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where o3 leads 63.5 to 29.1.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and o3 specifications
Falcon-180Bo3
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteOpenAI
Noometry Index32.247.5
Released2023-09-062025-04-16
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—100K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$8
Results tracked1663

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, o3: 46.8 (#64)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180Bo3
SWE-bench Verified—62.3%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—58.4%
Aider Polyglot—81.3%
GSO—8.8%
WeirdML—52.4%
LMArena Coding—1408
CadEval—74%
ALE-Bench—933.55

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, o3: 34.5 (#44)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180Bo3
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—63%
GDPval—30.8%
DeepResearch Bench—45.2%
OSWorld—23%
LMArena Search—1144
METR Time Horizons—65.4%

Reasoning o3 leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), o3: 32.0 (#78)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180Bo3
LMArena Hard Prompts10071402
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13146.86
ARC-AGI-2—6.5%
SimpleBench—53.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—67.6%
ARC-AGI-1—60.8%
CritPt—1.4%
Chess Puzzles—38%
EnigmaEval—13.1%
Mystery Game Puzzles—29%
DTBench—84.8%
LMCA—39.7%
ForecastBench—62.5
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, o3: 50.2 (#58)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180Bo3
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—33.3%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—84.4%
Omni-MATH—71.4%
LMArena Math—1426
MATH Level 5—97.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—18.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, o3: 54.6 (#52)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180Bo3
GPQA Diamond—81.8%
Humanity's Last Exam—20.3%
SimpleQA Verified—49.4%
MMLU-Pro—85.9%
Confabulations—14.4%
GPQA (HELM)—75.3%
LMArena Expert—1402
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, o3: 41.4 (#36)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180Bo3
LMArena Vision—1214
GeoBench—74%
VPCT—52%

Multilingual o3 leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), o3: 51.7 (#105)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180Bo3
LMArena Non-English10001401
LMArena Chinese—1437
LMArena French—1430
LMArena German—1420
LMArena Japanese—1403
LMArena Korean—1370
LMArena Russian—1406
LMArena Spanish—1395

Instruction Following o3 leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), o3: 72.8 (#127)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180Bo3
LMArena Instruction Following10471368
IFEval—86.9%

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, o3: 53.3 (#6)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180Bo3
Fiction.LiveBench—88.9%
CL-bench—17.8%
LMArena Longer Query—1372

Writing & Preference o3 leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), o3: 63.5 (#64)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180Bo3
LMArena Text10541410
LMArena Creative Writing10891359
LMArena Multi-Turn10131405
Short-Story Creative Writing—83.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1676
WildBench—86.1%

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than o3?

o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and o3 share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and o3 has 63.

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