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Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs Gemini 3.6 Flash

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Falcon-180B Technology Innovation Institute

32.2

Rank #260 Confirmed

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #33 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3.6 Flash in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 58.8 to 19.1.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-180BGemini 3.6 Flash
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteGoogle
Noometry Index32.254.1
Released2023-09-062026-07-21
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.75
Output $ / M tokens—$3.75
Results tracked1646

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3.6 Flash
DeepSWE—46.7%
FrontierCode—34.4%
LMArena WebDev—1538
SciCode—52.7%
WeirdML—56.1%
LMArena Coding—1491
ALE-Bench—715.52

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.3 (#65)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3.6 Flash
APEX-Agents—46.9%
GDP.pdf—14%

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3.6 Flash
LMArena Hard Prompts10071485
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13154.25
ARC-AGI-2—60.4%
NYT Connections (extended)—89%
ARC-AGI-1—91.2%
CritPt—10.6%
Chess Puzzles—43%
Mystery Game Puzzles—30%
DTBench—95.5%
LMCA—44.9%
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3.6 Flash
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—58.9%
FrontierMath Tier 4—22%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—70.8%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—94.2%
ProofBench—36%
LMArena Math—1505
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3.6 Flash
GPQA Diamond—94.1%
SimpleQA Verified—66.2%
LMArena Expert—1488
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3.6 Flash
LMArena Vision—1298
Blueprint-Bench 2—31.2%
Furniture Assembly—23.3%
LMArena Document—1456

Multilingual Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3.6 Flash
LMArena Non-English10001469
LMArena Chinese—1531
LMArena French—1504
LMArena German—1478
LMArena Japanese—1476
LMArena Korean—1431
LMArena Russian—1487
LMArena Spanish—1475

Instruction Following Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.0 (#33)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3.6 Flash
LMArena Instruction Following10471466

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3.6 Flash
LMArena Longer Query—1474

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3.6 Flash
LMArena Text10541479
LMArena Creative Writing10891465
LMArena Multi-Turn10131481
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1604

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than Gemini 3.6 Flash?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Gemini 3.6 Flash share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46.

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