# Falcon-180B vs Llama 3.1-405B

> Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.8 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-180b-vs-llama-3-1-405b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 12

## Summary

- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and Llama 3.1-405B in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Llama 3.1-405B leads 40.9 to 25.3.

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-180B | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 31.8 | 30.4 |
| Rank | 254 | 279 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Falcon-180B: —
- Llama 3.1-405B: 32.7 (#257)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | — | 21.4% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1291 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Falcon-180B: —
- Llama 3.1-405B: 20.9 (#131)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 7.4% |
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-180B: 18.3 (#266)
- Llama 3.1-405B: 16.4 (#293)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1270 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.89 | 128.76 |
| HellaSwag | 89% | 89.2% |
| PIQA | 84.9% | 85.9% |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | 89.2% |
| SimpleBench | — | 23% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 45% |
| DTBench | — | 61.4% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 82.9% |
| ForecastBench | — | 59.9 |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |

## Math

- Falcon-180B: —
- Llama 3.1-405B: 17.3 (#283)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 9.7% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 24.9% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1281 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 49.8% |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-180B: —
- Llama 3.1-405B: 30.4 (#221)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | 95.3% |
| MMLU | 70.6% | 84.5% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 50.9% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 72.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 17.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 52.2% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1243 |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
| TriviaQA | — | 82.7% |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-180B: 25.3 (#281)
- Llama 3.1-405B: 40.9 (#209)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1248 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1242 |
| LMArena French | — | 1278 |
| LMArena German | — | 1252 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1208 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1184 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1265 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1259 |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-180B: 53.6 (#281)
- Llama 3.1-405B: 66.1 (#209)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1259 |
| IFEval | — | 81.1% |

## Long Context

- Falcon-180B: —
- Llama 3.1-405B: 38.4 (#192)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1266 |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-180B: 29.3 (#290)
- Llama 3.1-405B: 39.1 (#246)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1284 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1262 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1297 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 870 |
| WildBench | — | 78.3% |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-180B better than Llama 3.1-405B?

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.8 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Llama 3.1-405B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-405B has 42.