Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation Institute
GoogleSummary
- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 48.7 to 29.1.
- Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 33.2 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | 2024-05-14 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 16 | 42 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | — | 24.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 43.5% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1261 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 55.1% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 75.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 67.5% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 14.6% |
Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1257 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | 129.36 |
| PIQA | 84.9% | 87.5% |
| DTBench | — | 53.8% |
| ForecastBench | — | 53.9 |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 54.4% | 82.4% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 16.3% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 30.4% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1269 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 61.9% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| BoolQ | 89% | 85.8% |
| MMLU | 70.6% | 77.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 67.8% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 43.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1233 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1141 |
| Video-MME | — | 70.3% |
| GeoBench | — | 76% |
Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1278 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1295 |
| LMArena French | — | 1258 |
| LMArena German | — | 1262 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1252 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1221 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1288 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1243 |
Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1258 |
| IFEval | — | 83.1% |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1284 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1285 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1253 |
| WildBench | — | 79.2% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)?
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) share?
11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42.