Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs Gemma 4 26B A4B IT

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT Google

43.5

Rank #92 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads 58.6 to 29.1.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT specifications
Falcon-180BGemma 4 26B A4B IT
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteGoogle
Noometry Index32.243.5
Released2023-09-062026-04-02
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.0675
Output $ / M tokens—$0.23
Results tracked1628

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 39.0 (#164)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena WebDev—1359
SciCode—40%
WeirdML—35.2%
LMArena Coding—1447
ALE-Bench—927.17

Reasoning Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 21.8 (#213)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Hard Prompts10071439
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13141.85
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—6%
DTBench—74.9%
LMCA—29.7%
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 47.6 (#67)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 4 26B A4B IT
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—82.2%
LMArena Math—1470
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 45.7 (#85)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 4 26B A4B IT
GPQA Diamond—73.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.2%
LMArena Expert—1447
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 40.6 (#46)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Vision—1260

Multilingual Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 53.1 (#71)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Non-English10001421
LMArena Chinese—1495
LMArena French—1460
LMArena Russian—1434
LMArena Spanish—1417

Instruction Following Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 74.8 (#82)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Instruction Following10471420

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 43.6 (#91)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Longer Query—1428

Writing & Preference Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 58.6 (#115)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Text10541434
LMArena Creative Writing10891402
LMArena Multi-Turn10131441
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1305

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than Gemma 4 26B A4B IT?

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT has 28.

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