# Falcon-180B vs Gemma 7B

> Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.8 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-180b-vs-gemma-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 15

## Summary

- They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 3 categories and Gemma 7B in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-180B | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Google |
| Noometry Index | 31.8 | 29.5 |
| Rank | 254 | 295 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Falcon-180B: —
- Gemma 7B: 29.9 (#290)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1048 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 28.7% |
| MBPP+ | — | 43.4% |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-180B: 18.3 (#266)
- Gemma 7B: 19.0 (#247)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1042 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.89 | 111.74 |
| HellaSwag | 89% | 82.2% |
| PIQA | 84.9% | 81.2% |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | 79% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 48.7% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 55.1% |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |

## Math

- Falcon-180B: —
- Gemma 7B: 28.7 (#225)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 54.4% | 46.4% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1066 |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-180B: —
- Gemma 7B: 26.8 (#248)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | 78.3% |
| BoolQ | 89% | 83.2% |
| MMLU | 70.6% | 66.1% |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | 78.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1002 |
| TriviaQA | — | 72.3% |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-180B: 25.3 (#281)
- Gemma 7B: 25.3 (#282)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 999 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1035 |
| LMArena French | — | 1024 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 993 |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-180B: 53.6 (#281)
- Gemma 7B: 51.7 (#290)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1017 |

## Long Context

- Falcon-180B: —
- Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#277)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1022 |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-180B: 29.3 (#290)
- Gemma 7B: 27.2 (#297)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1056 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1024 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 963 |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-180B better than Gemma 7B?

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.8 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Gemma 7B share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 7B has 27.
