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Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs Qwen3.5-9B

Qwen3.5-9B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.3 to 31.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Falcon-180B Technology Innovation Institute

31.8

Rank #254 Confirmed

Qwen3.5-9B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.3

Rank #235 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5-9B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5-9B leads 22.5 to 18.3.

Side by side

Falcon-180BQwen3.5-9B
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index31.833.3
Released2023-09-062026-02-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.15
Results tracked1610

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 35.3 (#213)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen3.5-9B
SciCode—27.5%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 14.4 (#143)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen3.5-9B
Terminal-Bench—9.2%

Reasoning Qwen3.5-9B leads

Falcon-180B: 18.3 (#266), Qwen3.5-9B: 22.5 (#178)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen3.5-9B
Epoch Capabilities Index111.89139.45
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—12%
LMArena Hard Prompts1007—
DTBench—71.2%
LMCA—24.5%
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 33.5 (#174)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen3.5-9B
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—48.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—61.7%
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 46.0 (#77)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen3.5-9B
GPQA Diamond—79%
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-180B: 25.3 (#281), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Non-English1000—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-180B: 53.6 (#281), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Instruction Following1047—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-180B: 29.3 (#290), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkFalcon-180BQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Text1054—
LMArena Creative Writing1089—
LMArena Multi-Turn1013—

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than Qwen3.5-9B?

Qwen3.5-9B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.3 to 31.8 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Qwen3.5-9B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-9B has 10.

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