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.
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 | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 37.0 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | 2025-06-17 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1.05M |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.40 |
| Results tracked | 16 | 33 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.5 (#173)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 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)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 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)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1377 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | 133.94 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 40.5% |
| DTBench | — | 62.8% |
| LMCA | — | 18.1% |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 38.0 (#144)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | — | 48% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1373 |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 32.5 (#210)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | — | 53.7% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 3.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 30.9% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1373 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 29.1 (#114)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 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)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1369 |
| 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)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1367 |
| IFEval | — | 81% |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: 33.3 (#262)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 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)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1379 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1367 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1366 |
| 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.