# Falcon-180B vs o1

> o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-180b-vs-o1
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 7

## Summary

- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and o1 in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where o1 leads 55.6 to 29.1.
- Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-180B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 40.9 |
| Rank | 260 | 143 |
| Context | — | 200K |
| Input $/M | — | $15 |
| Output $/M | — | $60 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Falcon-180B: —
- o1: 46.1 (#70)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 61.7% |
| WeirdML | — | 47.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 69.7% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1367 |
| CadEval | — | 56% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 89% |
| MBPP+ | — | 80.2% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Falcon-180B: —
- o1: 24.6 (#117)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 10% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 51.1% |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269)
- o1: 27.9 (#111)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1371 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | 141.91 |
| SimpleBench | — | 41.7% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 30.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 15% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 5.7% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 91.6% |
| DTBench | — | 74.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65.5% |
| LMCA | — | 22.3% |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 75.7% |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |

## Math

- Falcon-180B: —
- o1: 36.1 (#175)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 14.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 73.3% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 80.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1388 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 94.7% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 9.3% |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-180B: —
- o1: 41.5 (#110)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 76.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 41.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 11.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1361 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |

## Multimodal

- Falcon-180B: —
- o1: 34.2 (#93)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1168 |
| GeoBench | — | 80% |
| VPCT | — | 37% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 41.4% |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286)
- o1: 48.6 (#142)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1358 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1394 |
| LMArena French | — | 1344 |
| LMArena German | — | 1337 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1346 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1396 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1356 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1345 |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286)
- o1: 74.8 (#86)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1367 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.5% |

## Long Context

- Falcon-180B: —
- o1: 50.3 (#9)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1378 |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295)
- o1: 55.6 (#144)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1366 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1348 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1369 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 70.2% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 65.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-180B better than o1?

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and o1 share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.