Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 30.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct in 1 category, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct specifications
Falcon-180BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index32.230.1
Released2023-09-062024-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked167

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 38.7 (#169)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct—45%
BigCodeBench Complete—52.3%

Reasoning Too close to call

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 19.2 (#266)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13128.52
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1007—
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 16.2 (#296)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—7.4%
MATH Level 5—56.1%
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 24.9 (#266)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
GPQA Diamond—46.1%
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1000—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1047—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Text1054—
LMArena Creative Writing1089—
LMArena Multi-Turn1013—

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 30.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has 7.

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