# DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) vs Falcon-180B

> DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-v2-5-vs-falcon-180b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 6

## Summary

- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) scores higher in 4 categories and Falcon-180B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) leads 49.8 to 29.1.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Technology Innovation Institute |
| Noometry Index | 37.6 | 32.2 |
| Rank | 200 | 260 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 31.7 (#281)
- Falcon-180B: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 17.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.6% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1309 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.2% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 83.5% | — |
| MBPP+ | 74.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 25.6 (#145)
- Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1289 | 1007 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 112.13 |
| HellaSwag | — | 89% |
| LAMBADA | — | 79.8% |
| PIQA | — | 84.9% |
| WinoGrande | — | 87.1% |

## Math

- DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 35.9 (#177)
- Falcon-180B: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1288 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 34.8 (#193)
- Falcon-180B: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1266 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 67.8% |
| BoolQ | — | 89% |
| MMLU | — | 70.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 64.2% |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 42.5 (#193)
- Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1273 | 1000 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1318 | — |
| LMArena French | 1289 | — |
| LMArena German | 1258 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1228 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1209 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1289 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1248 | — |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 67.5 (#194)
- Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1280 | 1047 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 39.5 (#174)
- Falcon-180B: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1301 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 49.8 (#187)
- Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1294 | 1054 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | 1089 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1297 | 1013 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) better than Falcon-180B?

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) and Falcon-180B share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) has 22 scored results on Noometry and Falcon-180B has 16.