# Falcon-180B vs Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct

> Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.8 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-180b-vs-llama-3-3-70b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 8

## Summary

- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads 47.8 to 29.3.

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-180B | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 31.8 | 30.3 |
| Rank | 254 | 283 |
| Context | — | 128K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.10 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.32 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Falcon-180B: —
- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.6 (#284)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 26% |
| WeirdML | — | 14.4% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 46.9% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 36.6% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1268 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 57.5% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Falcon-180B: —
- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 25.6 (#100)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 31.9% |
| BALROG | — | 23% |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-180B: 18.3 (#266)
- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 13.7 (#325)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1257 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.89 | 127.32 |
| SimpleBench | — | 19.9% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 50.8% |
| DTBench | — | 59.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 49.5% |
| LMCA | — | 17.5% |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.6 |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 50.2% |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |

## Math

- Falcon-180B: —
- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 14.3 (#292)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 5.1% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 42.2% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1268 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 41.6% |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-180B: —
- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.5 (#220)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 70.6% | 86.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.4% |
| Confabulations | — | 22.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1225 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-180B: 25.3 (#281)
- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 40.1 (#215)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1236 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1217 |
| LMArena French | — | 1280 |
| LMArena German | — | 1251 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1149 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1142 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1252 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1269 |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-180B: 53.6 (#281)
- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 71.3 (#152)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1242 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 82.7% |

## Long Context

- Falcon-180B: —
- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 26.4 (#290)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 33.3% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1256 |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-180B: 29.3 (#290)
- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 47.8 (#203)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1274 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1250 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1279 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 39.2% |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-180B better than Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct?

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.8 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has 43.