# Falcon-180B vs Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)

> Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-180b-vs-gemini-1-5-flash
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 11

## Summary

- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 48.7 to 29.1.
- Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-180B | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Google |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 33.2 |
| Rank | 260 | 246 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Falcon-180B: —
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | — | 24.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 43.5% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1261 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 55.1% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 75.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 67.5% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Falcon-180B: —
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 14.6% |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1257 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | 129.36 |
| PIQA | 84.9% | 87.5% |
| DTBench | — | 53.8% |
| ForecastBench | — | 53.9 |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |

## Math

- Falcon-180B: —
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 54.4% | 82.4% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 16.3% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 30.4% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1269 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 61.9% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0% |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-180B: —
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| BoolQ | 89% | 85.8% |
| MMLU | 70.6% | 77.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 67.8% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 43.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1233 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |

## Multimodal

- Falcon-180B: —
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1141 |
| Video-MME | — | 70.3% |
| GeoBench | — | 76% |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1278 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1295 |
| LMArena French | — | 1258 |
| LMArena German | — | 1262 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1252 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1221 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1288 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1243 |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1258 |
| IFEval | — | 83.1% |

## Long Context

- Falcon-180B: —
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1284 |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1285 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1253 |
| WildBench | — | 79.2% |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-180B better than Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42.