Model comparison
Falcon 2 11B vs Qwen3 8B
Qwen3 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#237); Falcon 2 11B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation Institute
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
Side by side
| Falcon 2 11B | Qwen3 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | — | 33.3 |
| Released | 2024-05-09 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.18 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 5 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon 2 11B: —, Qwen3 8B: 33.4 (#245)
| Benchmark | Falcon 2 11B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 22.6% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Falcon 2 11B: —, Qwen3 8B: 29.9 (#71)
| Benchmark | Falcon 2 11B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 42.6% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Falcon 2 11B: —, Qwen3 8B: 16.1 (#299)
| Benchmark | Falcon 2 11B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 109.25 | 136.17 |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| DTBench | — | 59.7% |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
| HellaSwag | 82.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 78.3% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon 2 11B: —, Qwen3 8B: 33.3 (#176)
| Benchmark | Falcon 2 11B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 56.1% |
| GSM8K | 53.8% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon 2 11B: —, Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#164)
| Benchmark | Falcon 2 11B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.8% |
| MMLU | 58.4% | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon 2 11B: —, Qwen3 8B: 37.8 (#205)
| Benchmark | Falcon 2 11B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon 2 11B better than Qwen3 8B?
Qwen3 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#237); Falcon 2 11B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Falcon 2 11B and Qwen3 8B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon 2 11B has 5 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.