Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.5 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation Institute
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Max Preview in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads 63.8 to 29.1.
- Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | Qwen3.6 Max Preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 51.5 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | 2026-04-20 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $7.80 |
| Results tracked | 16 | 29 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 48.7 (#54)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 76.7% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1482 |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1471 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 4,254 |
Reasoning Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads
Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 41.7 (#53)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1457 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | 149.24 |
| SimpleBench | — | 63% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 74.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 20% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 19% |
| DTBench | — | 87.2% |
| LMCA | — | 42.5% |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.1 (#46)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 91.1% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1465 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 23.1% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 4.2% |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 57.6 (#39)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 87.4% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 52% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1478 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multilingual Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads
Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.2 (#48)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1437 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1487 |
| LMArena French | — | 1449 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1445 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1454 |
Instruction Following Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads
Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 75.7 (#55)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1438 |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 44.6 (#61)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1457 |
Writing & Preference Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads
Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 63.8 (#60)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1447 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1435 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1456 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than Qwen3.6 Max Preview?
Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.5 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Qwen3.6 Max Preview share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Max Preview has 29.