Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs Qwen3 8B
Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.3 to 31.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation Institute
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 8B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | Qwen3 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.8 | 33.3 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.18 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 16 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Qwen3 8B: 33.4 (#245)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 22.6% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Qwen3 8B: 29.9 (#71)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 42.6% |
Reasoning Falcon-180B leads
Falcon-180B: 18.3 (#266), Qwen3 8B: 16.1 (#299)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.89 | 136.17 |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | — |
| DTBench | — | 59.7% |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Qwen3 8B: 33.3 (#176)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 56.1% |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#164)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.8% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Falcon-180B: 25.3 (#281), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Falcon-180B: 53.6 (#281), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Qwen3 8B: 37.8 (#205)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Falcon-180B: 29.3 (#290), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than Qwen3 8B?
Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.3 to 31.8 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Qwen3 8B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.