# Claude Instant vs Falcon-180B

> Falcon-180B has enough public results to be ranked (#260); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-instant-vs-falcon-180b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 4

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 1 category and Falcon-180B in 0 categories, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
- Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Instant | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Technology Innovation Institute |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 32.2 |
| Rank | — | 260 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Instant: —
- Falcon-180B: —

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude Instant: 19.6
- Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | 112.13 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1007 |
| DTBench | 45.8% | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 89% |
| LAMBADA | — | 79.8% |
| PIQA | — | 84.9% |
| WinoGrande | — | 87.1% |

## Math

- Claude Instant: —
- Falcon-180B: —

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 86.7% | 54.4% |

## Knowledge

- Claude Instant: —
- Falcon-180B: —

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | 67.8% |
| MMLU | 73.4% | 70.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 89% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 64.2% |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Instant: —
- Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1000 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Instant: —
- Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1047 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Instant: —
- Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1054 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1089 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1013 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Instant better than Falcon-180B?

Falcon-180B has enough public results to be ranked (#260); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Falcon-180B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Falcon-180B has 16.