Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google

37.0

Rank #211 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads 56.8 to 29.1.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite specifications
Falcon-180BGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteGoogle
Noometry Index32.237.0
Released2023-09-062025-06-17
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked1633

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
WeirdML—35.2%
LMArena Coding—1373
ALE-Bench—325.9

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 28.0 (#96)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—36.9%

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 22.2 (#205)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Hard Prompts10071377
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13133.94
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.5%
DTBench—62.8%
LMCA—18.1%
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Omni-MATH—48%
LMArena Math—1373
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
MMLU-Pro—53.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—3.3%
GPQA (HELM)—30.9%
LMArena Expert—1373
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Vision—1198
VPCT—30%

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 49.3 (#134)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Non-English10001369
LMArena Chinese—1404
LMArena French—1388
LMArena German—1389
LMArena Japanese—1359
LMArena Korean—1360
LMArena Russian—1373
LMArena Spanish—1396

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 70.0 (#168)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Instruction Following10471367
IFEval—81%

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Fiction.LiveBench—47.2%
LMArena Longer Query—1373

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 56.8 (#135)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
LMArena Text10541379
LMArena Creative Writing10891367
LMArena Multi-Turn10131366
WildBench—81.8%

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite?

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

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

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has 33.

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