Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs Phi-4

Falcon-180B and Phi-4 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.2 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Phi-4 Microsoft

31.2

Rank #279 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and Phi-4 in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Phi-4 leads 37.2 to 25.2.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and Phi-4 specifications
Falcon-180BPhi-4
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteMicrosoft
Noometry Index32.231.2
Released2023-09-062024-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.07
Output $ / M tokens—$0.14
Results tracked1637

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Phi-4: 34.4 (#239)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPhi-4
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.5%
LiveBench Coding—30.7%
LMArena Coding—1231
BigCodeBench Complete—55.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Phi-4: 22.8 (#128)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPhi-4
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.8%
BALROG—11.6%

Reasoning Falcon-180B leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Phi-4: 17.7 (#291)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPhi-4
LMArena Hard Prompts10071220
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13130.42
Chess Puzzles—1%
LiveBench Reasoning—47.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—45.2%
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
LiveBench—41.6%
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Phi-4: 20.8 (#285)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPhi-4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—13.8%
LiveBench Math—42%
LMArena Math—1246
MATH Level 5—64.9%
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Phi-4: 32.6 (#209)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPhi-4
MMLU70.6%84.8%
GPQA Diamond—56.1%
Confabulations—29.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—3.7%
LMArena Expert—1203
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multilingual Phi-4 leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Phi-4: 37.2 (#237)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPhi-4
LMArena Non-English10001197
LMArena Chinese—1212
LMArena French—1224
LMArena German—1222
LMArena Japanese—1158
LMArena Korean—1151
LMArena Russian—1209
LMArena Spanish—1234

Instruction Following Phi-4 leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Phi-4: 60.4 (#251)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPhi-4
LMArena Instruction Following10471201
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.4%

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Phi-4: 36.9 (#226)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPhi-4
LMArena Longer Query—1217

Writing & Preference Phi-4 leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Phi-4: 40.5 (#244)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BPhi-4
LMArena Text10541217
LMArena Creative Writing10891182
LMArena Multi-Turn10131206
Short-Story Creative Writing—62.6%
LiveBench Language—25.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than Phi-4?

Falcon-180B and Phi-4 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.2 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Phi-4 share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.

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