Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs Llama 2-7B

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 11, 2026. 16 shared benchmarks.

Falcon-180B

Technology Innovation Institute

32.2

Rank #260 Confirmed

Llama 2-7B

Summary

They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 4 categories and Llama 2-7B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in reasoning, where Falcon-180B leads 19.1 to 15.7.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and Llama 2-7B specifications
	Falcon-180B	Llama 2-7B
Provider	Technology Innovation Institute	Meta
Noometry Index	32.2	29.1
Released	2023-09-06	2023-07-18
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	—	—
Max output	—	—
Input $ / M tokens	—	—
Output $ / M tokens	—	—
Results tracked	16	29

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Llama 2-7B: 29.2 (#307)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	Llama 2-7B
LMArena Coding	—	1002

Reasoning Falcon-180B leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Llama 2-7B: 15.7 (#312)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	Llama 2-7B
LMArena Hard Prompts	1007	1009
Epoch Capabilities Index	112.13	99.06
HellaSwag	89%	77.2%
LAMBADA	79.8%	73.3%
PIQA	84.9%	78.8%
WinoGrande	87.1%	69.2%
Chess Puzzles	—	0%
BIG-Bench Hard	—	39.2%

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Llama 2-7B: 30.7 (#233)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	Llama 2-7B
GSM8K	54.4%	16.7%
LMArena Math	—	1042

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#248)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	Llama 2-7B
ARC (AI2) Challenge	67.8%	45.9%
BoolQ	89%	77.9%
MMLU	70.6%	45.8%
OpenBookQA	64.2%	58.6%
LMArena Expert	—	1036
TriviaQA	—	73.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Llama 2-7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	Llama 2-7B
ScienceQA	—	43.1%

Multilingual Falcon-180B leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Llama 2-7B: 23.8 (#293)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	Llama 2-7B
LMArena Non-English	1000	973
LMArena Chinese	—	973
LMArena French	—	970
LMArena German	—	978
LMArena Russian	—	995
LMArena Spanish	—	1007

Instruction Following Falcon-180B leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Llama 2-7B: 50.8 (#298)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	Llama 2-7B
LMArena Instruction Following	1047	1006

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#287)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	Llama 2-7B
LMArena Longer Query	—	999

Writing & Preference Falcon-180B leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Llama 2-7B: 28.0 (#298)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Falcon-180B	Llama 2-7B
LMArena Text	1054	1053
LMArena Creative Writing	1089	1033
LMArena Multi-Turn	1013	1029

Frequently asked questions

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