Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs Gemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Google

39.3

Rank #170 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and Gemini 2.5 Flash in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Gemini 2.5 Flash leads 52.3 to 25.2.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and Gemini 2.5 Flash specifications
Falcon-180BGemini 2.5 Flash
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteGoogle
Noometry Index32.239.3
Released2023-09-062025-04-17
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.30
Output $ / M tokens—$2.50
Results tracked1654

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash: 35.8 (#220)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.5 Flash
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—28.7%
Aider Polyglot—55.1%
WeirdML—41.9%
LMArena Coding—1424
ALE-Bench—661.88

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash: 30.8 (#74)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.5 Flash
Terminal-Bench—17.1%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—56.2%
TheAgentCompany—41.1%
BALROG—33.5%
Vending-Bench 2—548.84

Reasoning Falcon-180B leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Gemini 2.5 Flash: 18.1 (#286)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.5 Flash
LMArena Hard Prompts10071422
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13143.03
ARC-AGI-2—2.5%
SimpleBench—41.2%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—56.8%
ARC-AGI-1—33.3%
CritPt—1.1%
EnigmaEval—2.7%
DTBench—76.5%
LMCA—27.5%
ForecastBench—60.6
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash: 39.9 (#98)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.5 Flash
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—73.1%
Omni-MATH—38.5%
LMArena Math—1415
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—4.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—4.2%
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash: 36.4 (#168)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.5 Flash
Humanity's Last Exam—12.1%
MMLU-Pro—63.9%
Confabulations—16.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.8%
GPQA (HELM)—39%
LMArena Expert—1426
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash: 41.8 (#32)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.5 Flash
LMArena Vision—1253
GeoBench—76%
VPCT—46.2%
SpatialViz-Bench—36.9%

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Gemini 2.5 Flash: 52.3 (#88)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.5 Flash
LMArena Non-English10001409
LMArena Chinese—1450
LMArena French—1433
LMArena German—1418
LMArena Japanese—1405
LMArena Korean—1385
LMArena Russian—1415
LMArena Spanish—1421

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Gemini 2.5 Flash: 75.7 (#54)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.5 Flash
LMArena Instruction Following10471405
IFEval—89.8%

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash: 47.5 (#17)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.5 Flash
Fiction.LiveBench—77.8%
LMArena Longer Query—1419

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Gemini 2.5 Flash: 53.8 (#157)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.5 Flash
LMArena Text10541417
LMArena Creative Writing10891400
LMArena Multi-Turn10131408
Short-Story Creative Writing—76.5%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1137
WildBench—81.7%

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than Gemini 2.5 Flash?

Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Gemini 2.5 Flash share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.5 Flash has 54.

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