Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation Institute
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads 48.8 to 29.1.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 29.0 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.17 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 16 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 36.5 (#208)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.1% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.8 (#124)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 7.8% |
Reasoning Falcon-180B leads
Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.8 (#322)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | 118.51 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | — |
| DTBench | — | 47.7% |
| LMCA | — | 6.4% |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 12.6 (#306)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 29.4% |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#286)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 70.6% | 72.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 35.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 53.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 34.1% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | — |
Instruction Following Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.2 (#231)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 74.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | — |
Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#195)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | — |
| WildBench | — | 73.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?
Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.