Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs Gemini 3 Flash Preview

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Flash Preview Google

52.3

Rank #40 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3 Flash Preview in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads 65.5 to 29.1.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and Gemini 3 Flash Preview specifications
Falcon-180BGemini 3 Flash Preview
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteGoogle
Noometry Index32.252.3
Released2023-09-062025-12-17
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$3
Results tracked1659

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 50.9 (#42)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3 Flash Preview
SWE-bench Verified—75.4%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—75.8%
LMArena WebDev—1439
SWE-bench Multilingual—72.7%
GSO—9.8%
WeirdML—61.6%
LMArena Coding—1460
ALE-Bench—1,367

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 38.7 (#29)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3 Flash Preview
Terminal-Bench—64.3%
τ²-bench Airline—82.5%
τ²-bench Banking—27.3%
τ²-bench Retail—76.8%
τ²-bench Telecom—91.2%
DeepResearch Bench—49.8%
BALROG—48.1%
GDP.pdf—10%
LMArena Search—1198
Vending-Bench 2—3,635

Reasoning Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 49.2 (#37)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Hard Prompts10071465
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13151.8
ARC-AGI-2—33.6%
SimpleBench—61.1%
NYT Connections (extended)—83.1%
ARC-AGI-1—84.7%
Chess Puzzles—40%
Mystery Game Puzzles—26%
DTBench—89.1%
LMCA—43.1%
ForecastBench—58.5
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.7 (#55)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3 Flash Preview
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—51.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4—17.1%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—67.6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—95.6%
ProofBench—15%
LMArena Math—1473
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—35.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—4.2%
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 58.8 (#33)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3 Flash Preview
GPQA Diamond—89.4%
SimpleQA Verified—66.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—13.5%
LMArena Expert—1462
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 45.5 (#16)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Vision—1285
GeoBench—88%
VPCT—72.6%
Blueprint-Bench 2—0%
LMArena Document—1413

Multilingual Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 55.7 (#27)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Non-English10001458
LMArena Chinese—1511
LMArena French—1477
LMArena German—1497
LMArena Japanese—1489
LMArena Korean—1443
LMArena Russian—1480
LMArena Spanish—1469

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 75.7 (#56)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Instruction Following10471437

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 44.4 (#67)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Longer Query—1452

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 65.5 (#45)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Text10541466
LMArena Creative Writing10891457
LMArena Multi-Turn10131471

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than Gemini 3 Flash Preview?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Gemini 3 Flash Preview share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3 Flash Preview has 59.

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