Model comparison

Falcon-7B vs Gemma 3 12B

Gemma 3 12B has enough public results to be ranked (#262); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.

Side by side

Falcon-7B and Gemma 3 12B specifications
Falcon-7BGemma 3 12B
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteGoogle
Noometry Index—32.1
Released2023-04-242025-03-12
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.05
Output $ / M tokens—$0.15
Results tracked1224

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Gemma 3 12B: 31.7 (#280)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGemma 3 12B
SciCode—17.4%
LMArena Coding—1281

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Gemma 3 12B: 25.5 (#108)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGemma 3 12B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—30.4%

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Gemma 3 12B: 15.7 (#313)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGemma 3 12B
Epoch Capabilities Index95.1123.5
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1309
DTBench—48.8%
LMCA—4.5%
BIG-Bench Hard28.8%—
HellaSwag78.1%—
LAMBADA74.9%—
PIQA80.3%—
WinoGrande67.2%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Gemma 3 12B: 22.3 (#279)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGemma 3 12B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—16.7%
LMArena Math—1307
GSM8K6.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Gemma 3 12B: 26.5 (#257)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGemma 3 12B
GPQA Diamond—39.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—4.4%
LMArena Expert—1248
ARC (AI2) Challenge47.9%—
BoolQ75.3%—
MMLU35%—
OpenBookQA51.6%—
TriviaQA64.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Gemma 3 12B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGemma 3 12B
MindCube—46.7%

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Gemma 3 12B: 45.7 (#165)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGemma 3 12B
LMArena Non-English—1318
LMArena German—1370
LMArena Russian—1335

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Gemma 3 12B: 68.6 (#186)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGemma 3 12B
LMArena Instruction Following—1299

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Gemma 3 12B: 40.0 (#162)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGemma 3 12B
LMArena Longer Query—1317

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon-7B: —, Gemma 3 12B: 47.5 (#209)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-7BGemma 3 12B
LMArena Text—1334
LMArena Creative Writing—1331
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1126
LMArena Multi-Turn—1334

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-7B better than Gemma 3 12B?

Gemma 3 12B has enough public results to be ranked (#262); Falcon-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-7B and Gemma 3 12B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon-7B has 12 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 12B has 24.

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