Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 31.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation Institute
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 58.2 to 29.3.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.8 | 42.5 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | 2025-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Results tracked | 16 | 25 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.9 (#101)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1441 |
Reasoning Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Falcon-180B: 18.3 (#266), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 30.1 (#79)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1428 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 66.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.89 | — |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 36.3 (#118)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | — | 46.7% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1440 |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.3 (#102)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 63% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1416 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multilingual Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Falcon-180B: 25.3 (#281), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.3 (#88)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1407 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1461 |
| LMArena French | — | 1415 |
| LMArena German | — | 1416 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1398 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1366 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1403 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1436 |
Instruction Following Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Falcon-180B: 53.6 (#281), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 71.0 (#154)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1388 |
| IFEval | — | 81% |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#218)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 55.6% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1403 |
Writing & Preference Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Falcon-180B: 29.3 (#290), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.2 (#116)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1417 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1333 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1415 |
| WildBench | — | 80.7% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 31.8 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?
6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.