# DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) vs Falcon-180B

> Falcon-180B has enough public results to be ranked (#254); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

## Summary

- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Technology Innovation Institute |
| Noometry Index | 39.7 | 31.8 |
| Rank | — | 254 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): 39.8 (#141)
- Falcon-180B: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.4% | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Falcon-180B: 18.3 (#266)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 124.78 | 111.89 |
| HellaSwag | 87.1% | 89% |
| PIQA | 83.9% | 84.9% |
| WinoGrande | 86.3% | 87.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1007 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 78.8% | — |
| LAMBADA | — | 79.8% |

## Math

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Falcon-180B: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | — | 54.4% |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Falcon-180B: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 92.2% | 67.8% |
| MMLU | 78.4% | 70.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 89% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 64.2% |
| TriviaQA | 80% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Falcon-180B: 25.3 (#281)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1000 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Falcon-180B: 53.6 (#281)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1047 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Falcon-180B: 29.3 (#290)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1054 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1089 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1013 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) better than Falcon-180B?

Falcon-180B has enough public results to be ranked (#254); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and Falcon-180B share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has 10 scored results on Noometry and Falcon-180B has 16.