Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 47.4 to 25.2.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) specifications
Falcon-180BGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteGoogle
Noometry Index32.235.1
Released2023-09-062024-12-06
WeightsOpenProprietary
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Results tracked1654

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—13.5%
Aider Polyglot—38.2%
WeirdML—25.8%
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.9%
LiveBench Coding—63.4%
LMArena Coding—1350
BigCodeBench Complete—59.9%
CadEval—30%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
TheAgentCompany—11.4%

Reasoning Falcon-180B leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Hard Prompts10071346
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13135.36
ARC-AGI-2—1.3%
SimpleBench—31.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—37.8%
EnigmaEval—1.1%
LiveBench Reasoning—78.2%
DTBench—63.2%
LiveBench Data Analysis—69.4%
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
LiveBench—66.9%
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—57.8%
Omni-MATH—45.9%
LiveBench Math—75.8%
LMArena Math—1352
MATH Level 5—82.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1.7%
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
MMLU70.6%79.7%
GPQA Diamond—64.1%
Humanity's Last Exam—6.6%
MMLU-Pro—73.7%
Confabulations—12.4%
GPQA (HELM)—55.6%
LMArena Expert—1339
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Vision—1158
GeoBench—77%

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Non-English10001342
LMArena Chinese—1373
LMArena French—1391
LMArena German—1353
LMArena Japanese—1294
LMArena Korean—1313
LMArena Russian—1351
LMArena Spanish—1363

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Instruction Following10471336
LiveBench Instruction Following—85.8%
IFEval—84.1%

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
Fiction.LiveBench—61.1%
LMArena Longer Query—1344

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Text10541354
LMArena Creative Writing10891340
LMArena Multi-Turn10131350
Short-Story Creative Writing—73.8%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1128
WildBench—80%
LiveBench Language—51.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)?

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54.

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