Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs Gemma 3 4B

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 28.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 4B Google

28.1

Rank #326 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and Gemma 3 4B in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Gemma 3 4B leads 42.5 to 25.2.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and Gemma 3 4B specifications
Falcon-180BGemma 3 4B
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteGoogle
Noometry Index32.228.1
Released2023-09-062025-03-12
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.04
Output $ / M tokens—$0.08
Results tracked1622

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 3 4B: 35.9 (#215)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 3 4B
LMArena Coding—1230

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 3 4B: 20.9 (#142)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 3 4B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—19.6%

Reasoning Falcon-180B leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Gemma 3 4B: 13.2 (#335)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 3 4B
LMArena Hard Prompts10071253
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13116.02
Kagi LLM Benchmark—25.2%
Chess Puzzles—0%
DTBench—50.9%
LMCA—2.8%
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 3 4B: 16.8 (#292)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 3 4B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—7.5%
LMArena Math—1239
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 3 4B: 11.8 (#299)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 3 4B
GPQA Diamond—23.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—6.4%
LMArena Expert—1223
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multilingual Gemma 3 4B leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Gemma 3 4B: 42.5 (#194)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 3 4B
LMArena Non-English10001273
LMArena German—1281
LMArena Russian—1294

Instruction Following Gemma 3 4B leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Gemma 3 4B: 65.2 (#225)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 3 4B
LMArena Instruction Following10471239

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 3 4B: 38.7 (#194)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 3 4B
LMArena Longer Query—1273

Writing & Preference Gemma 3 4B leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Gemma 3 4B: 42.0 (#239)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 3 4B
LMArena Text10541291
LMArena Creative Writing10891271
LMArena Multi-Turn10131255
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1068

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than Gemma 3 4B?

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 28.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Gemma 3 4B share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 4B has 22.

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