# Falcon-180B vs Gemini 3 Pro

> Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-180b-vs-gemini-3-pro
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 7

## Summary

- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3 Pro in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 66.4 to 29.1.
- Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-180B | Gemini 3 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Google |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 54.8 |
| Rank | 260 | 28 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Falcon-180B: —
- Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 3 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 72.9% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 74.2% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1440 |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | 68.7% |
| GSO | — | 18.6% |
| WeirdML | — | 69.9% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1481 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 1,177 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.83 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Falcon-180B: —
- Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 3 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 69.4% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 72.5% |
| GDPval | — | 40.3% |
| Remote Labor Index | — | 1.3% |
| τ²-bench Airline | — | 80.5% |
| τ²-bench Banking | — | 18% |
| τ²-bench Retail | — | 75.9% |
| τ²-bench Telecom | — | 91% |
| DeepResearch Bench | — | 46.3% |
| BALROG | — | 58.1% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1207 |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 71% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 5,478 |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269)
- Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 3 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1480 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | 152.92 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 31.1% |
| SimpleBench | — | 76.4% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 80.1% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 94.4% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 75% |
| CritPt | — | 6.9% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 31% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 18.2% |
| ForecastBench | — | 61.2 |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |

## Math

- Falcon-180B: —
- Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 3 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 67% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 91.4% |
| ProofBench | — | 20% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 55.5% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1476 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 37.6% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 18.8% |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-180B: —
- Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 3 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 92.6% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 37.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 90.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 13.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 80.3% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1475 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |

## Multimodal

- Falcon-180B: —
- Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 3 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1305 |
| GeoBench | — | 84% |
| VPCT | — | 91% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1434 |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286)
- Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 3 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1474 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1523 |
| LMArena French | — | 1492 |
| LMArena German | — | 1515 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1510 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1448 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1493 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1470 |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286)
- Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 3 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1458 |
| IFEval | — | 87.7% |

## Long Context

- Falcon-180B: —
- Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 3 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| CL-bench | — | 15.8% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1471 |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295)
- Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 3 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1479 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1482 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1484 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1525 |
| WildBench | — | 85.9% |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-180B better than Gemini 3 Pro?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Gemini 3 Pro share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3 Pro has 67.