Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs Qwen3-1.7B

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 26.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3-1.7B Alibaba (Qwen)

26.6

Rank #336 Reported

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Falcon-180B and Qwen3-1.7B specifications
Falcon-180BQwen3-1.7B
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index32.226.6
Released2023-09-062025-04-29
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked164

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Category by category

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Qwen3-1.7B: 24.7 (#115)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen3-1.7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.4%

Reasoning Too close to call

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Qwen3-1.7B: 19.2 (#267)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen3-1.7B
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1007—
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13—
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Qwen3-1.7B: 16.3 (#294)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen3-1.7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—8.1%
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Qwen3-1.7B: 19.6 (#278)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen3-1.7B
GPQA Diamond—38%
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Non-English1000—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Instruction Following1047—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Text1054—
LMArena Creative Writing1089—
LMArena Multi-Turn1013—

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than Qwen3-1.7B?

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 26.6 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Qwen3-1.7B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-1.7B has 4.

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