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Falcon-180B vs DeepSeek V3
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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.
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knowledge·DeepSeek V3reasoning·DeepSeek V3
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Attention vs performance
Falcon-180B
#119 by perf·no signal
DeepSeek V3
#45 by perf·no signal
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DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Head to head
7 benchmarks · 2 models
Falcon-180BDeepSeek V3
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.
Falcon-180B
57.1
DeepSeek V3
93.7
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.
Falcon-180B
16.1
DeepSeek V3
83.3
HellaSwag
Falcon-180B leads by +0.1
HellaSwag · tests commonsense reasoning by asking models to predict the most plausible continuation of everyday scenarios.
Falcon-180B
85.3
DeepSeek V3
85.2
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.
Falcon-180B
60.8
DeepSeek V3
82.9
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.
Falcon-180B
69.8
DeepSeek V3
69.4
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.
Falcon-180B
79.9
DeepSeek V3
82.9
Winogrande
Falcon-180B leads by +3.8
WinoGrande · large-scale commonsense reasoning benchmark where models must resolve ambiguous pronouns in carefully constructed sentence pairs.
Falcon-180B
74.2
DeepSeek V3
70.4
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | DeepSeek V3 |
|---|---|---|
ARC AI2 AI2 Reasoning Challenge · tests grade-school level science knowledge with multiple-choice questions requiring reasoning beyond simple retrieval. | 57.1 | 93.7 |
BBH BIG-Bench Hard · a curated subset of 23 challenging tasks from BIG-Bench where language models previously failed to outperform average humans. | 16.1 | 83.3 |
HellaSwag HellaSwag · tests commonsense reasoning by asking models to predict the most plausible continuation of everyday scenarios. | 85.3 | 85.2 |
MMLU Massive Multitask Language Understanding · 57 subjects spanning STEM, humanities, social sciences, and more. The standard benchmark for broad knowledge. | 60.8 | 82.9 |
PIQA PIQA (Physical Interaction QA) · tests intuitive physical reasoning by asking models to select the correct approach for everyday physical tasks. | 69.8 | 69.4 |
TriviaQA TriviaQA · reading comprehension benchmark with trivia questions, requiring models to find and reason over evidence from provided documents. | 79.9 | 82.9 |
Winogrande WinoGrande · large-scale commonsense reasoning benchmark where models must resolve ambiguous pronouns in carefully constructed sentence pairs. | 74.2 | 70.4 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | — | |
| $0.32 | $0.89 | 164K tokens (~82 books) | $4.63 |