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DeepSeek V3 vs Falcon-180B
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Winner summary
DeepSeek V3 wins on 4/7 benchmarks
DeepSeek V3 wins 4 of 7 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge · reasoning.
Category leads
knowledge·DeepSeek V3reasoning·DeepSeek V3
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
DeepSeek V3
#70 by perf·no signal
Falcon-180B
#164 by perf·no signal
Vendor risk
Mixed exposure
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DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
TII
private · undisclosed
Head to head
7 benchmarks · 2 models
DeepSeek V3Falcon-180B
ARC AI2
DeepSeek V3 leads by +36.7
AI2 Reasoning Challenge · tests grade-school level science knowledge with multiple-choice questions requiring reasoning beyond simple retrieval.
DeepSeek V3
93.7
Falcon-180B
57.1
BBH
DeepSeek V3 leads by +67.2
BIG-Bench Hard · a curated subset of 23 challenging tasks from BIG-Bench where language models previously failed to outperform average humans.
DeepSeek V3
83.3
Falcon-180B
16.1
HellaSwag
Falcon-180B leads by +0.1
HellaSwag · tests commonsense reasoning by asking models to predict the most plausible continuation of everyday scenarios.
DeepSeek V3
85.2
Falcon-180B
85.3
MMLU
DeepSeek V3 leads by +22.1
Massive Multitask Language Understanding · 57 subjects spanning STEM, humanities, social sciences, and more. The standard benchmark for broad knowledge.
DeepSeek V3
82.9
Falcon-180B
60.8
PIQA
Falcon-180B leads by +0.4
PIQA (Physical Interaction QA) · tests intuitive physical reasoning by asking models to select the correct approach for everyday physical tasks.
DeepSeek V3
69.4
Falcon-180B
69.8
TriviaQA
DeepSeek V3 leads by +3.0
TriviaQA · reading comprehension benchmark with trivia questions, requiring models to find and reason over evidence from provided documents.
DeepSeek V3
82.9
Falcon-180B
79.9
Winogrande
Falcon-180B leads by +3.8
WinoGrande · large-scale commonsense reasoning benchmark where models must resolve ambiguous pronouns in carefully constructed sentence pairs.
DeepSeek V3
70.4
Falcon-180B
74.2
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V3 | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
ARC AI2 AI2 Reasoning Challenge · tests grade-school level science knowledge with multiple-choice questions requiring reasoning beyond simple retrieval. | 93.7 | 57.1 |
BBH BIG-Bench Hard · a curated subset of 23 challenging tasks from BIG-Bench where language models previously failed to outperform average humans. | 83.3 | 16.1 |
HellaSwag HellaSwag · tests commonsense reasoning by asking models to predict the most plausible continuation of everyday scenarios. | 85.2 | 85.3 |
MMLU Massive Multitask Language Understanding · 57 subjects spanning STEM, humanities, social sciences, and more. The standard benchmark for broad knowledge. | 82.9 | 60.8 |
PIQA PIQA (Physical Interaction QA) · tests intuitive physical reasoning by asking models to select the correct approach for everyday physical tasks. | 69.4 | 69.8 |
TriviaQA TriviaQA · reading comprehension benchmark with trivia questions, requiring models to find and reason over evidence from provided documents. | 82.9 | 79.9 |
Winogrande WinoGrande · large-scale commonsense reasoning benchmark where models must resolve ambiguous pronouns in carefully constructed sentence pairs. | 70.4 | 74.2 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0.26 | $1.03 | 164K tokens (~82 books) | $4.50 | |
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