# Falcon-180B vs GLM-5

> GLM-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.9 to 31.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-180b-vs-glm-5
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 7

## Summary

- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and GLM-5 in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GLM-5 leads 66.2 to 29.3.

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-180B | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Z.ai (Zhipu) |
| Noometry Index | 31.8 | 45.9 |
| Rank | 254 | 59 |
| Context | — | 205K |
| Input $/M | — | $1 |
| Output $/M | — | $3.20 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Falcon-180B: —
- GLM-5: 49.0 (#47)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 72.1% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 72.8% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1434 |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | 69.7% |
| WeirdML | — | 48.2% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1461 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 765.62 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Falcon-180B: —
- GLM-5: 30.9 (#65)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 52.4% |
| τ²-bench Airline | — | 82.5% |
| τ²-bench Banking | — | 9.8% |
| τ²-bench Retail | — | 73.7% |
| τ²-bench Telecom | — | 86.8% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 4,432 |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-180B: 18.3 (#266)
- GLM-5: 27.6 (#100)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1451 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.89 | 145.84 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 4.9% |
| SimpleBench | — | 53.2% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 75% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 74.8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 44.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 10% |
| ForecastBench | — | 61 |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |

## Math

- Falcon-180B: —
- GLM-5: 44.8 (#66)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 65.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 80% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1440 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 16.4% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 2.1% |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-180B: —
- GLM-5: 52.2 (#59)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 87.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 10.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1454 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-180B: 25.3 (#281)
- GLM-5: 53.9 (#57)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1430 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1511 |
| LMArena French | — | 1455 |
| LMArena German | — | 1445 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1416 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1421 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1436 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1452 |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-180B: 53.6 (#281)
- GLM-5: 75.4 (#64)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1427 |

## Long Context

- Falcon-180B: —
- GLM-5: 44.6 (#58)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| CL-bench | — | 18.7% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1446 |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-180B: 29.3 (#290)
- GLM-5: 66.2 (#38)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | GLM-5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1446 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1438 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1456 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1601 |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-180B better than GLM-5?

GLM-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.9 to 31.8 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and GLM-5 share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and GLM-5 has 45.