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Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs Qwen3 235B-A22B

Qwen3 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Falcon-180B Technology Innovation Institute

32.2

Rank #260 Confirmed

Qwen3 235B-A22B Alibaba (Qwen)

43.5

Rank #91 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 235B-A22B in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3 235B-A22B leads 59.6 to 29.1.

Side by side

Falcon-180BQwen3 235B-A22B
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index32.243.5
Released2023-09-062025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked1649

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 44.3 (#75)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen3 235B-A22B
Aider Polyglot—59.6%
SciCode—42.4%
WeirdML—41%
LMArena Coding—1445

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 33.9 (#51)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen3 235B-A22B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—52.1%
Vending-Bench 2—-11.34

Reasoning Falcon-180B leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 15.7 (#311)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Hard Prompts10071433
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13143.85
ARC-AGI-2—1.3%
SimpleBench—31%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—69.4%
ARC-AGI-1—11%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—12%
Mystery Game Puzzles—9%
DTBench—80.3%
LMCA—29.3%
ForecastBench—59.7
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 50.4 (#57)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen3 235B-A22B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—86.7%
Omni-MATH—71.8%
LMArena Math—1432
MATH Level 5—68.9%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—8.5%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 49.6 (#73)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen3 235B-A22B
GPQA Diamond—80.1%
SimpleQA Verified—40.4%
MMLU-Pro—84.4%
Confabulations—15.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%
GPQA (HELM)—72.7%
LMArena Expert—1463
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multilingual Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 52.3 (#89)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Non-English10001409
LMArena Chinese—1481
LMArena French—1445
LMArena German—1433
LMArena Japanese—1399
LMArena Korean—1391
LMArena Russian—1411
LMArena Spanish—1430

Instruction Following Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 72.6 (#136)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Instruction Following10471408
IFEval—83.5%

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 46.1 (#26)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen3 235B-A22B
Fiction.LiveBench—75%
LMArena Longer Query—1426

Writing & Preference Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 59.6 (#108)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Text10541419
LMArena Creative Writing10891384
LMArena Multi-Turn10131432
Short-Story Creative Writing—83%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1366
WildBench—86.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than Qwen3 235B-A22B?

Qwen3 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Qwen3 235B-A22B share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 235B-A22B has 49.

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