# Falcon-180B vs Llama 2-13B

> Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-180b-vs-llama-2-13b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 16

## Summary

- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 2 categories and Llama 2-13B in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Falcon-180B leads 19.1 to 12.8.

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-180B | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 29.6 |
| Rank | 260 | 309 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Falcon-180B: —
- Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1062 |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269)
- Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1051 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | 106.17 |
| HellaSwag | 89% | 80.7% |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | 76.5% |
| PIQA | 84.9% | 80.8% |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | 72.8% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 42.2% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 58.2% |

## Math

- Falcon-180B: —
- Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 54.4% | 36.9% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1065 |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-180B: —
- Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | 60.3% |
| BoolQ | 89% | 82.4% |
| MMLU | 70.6% | 55.6% |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | 57% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1030 |
| TriviaQA | — | 79.6% |

## Multimodal

- Falcon-180B: —
- Llama 2-13B: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| ScienceQA | — | 55.8% |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286)
- Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1024 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1001 |
| LMArena French | — | 1044 |
| LMArena German | — | 1009 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 894 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 953 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1055 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1087 |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286)
- Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1045 |

## Long Context

- Falcon-180B: —
- Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1064 |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295)
- Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1084 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1047 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1050 |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-180B better than Llama 2-13B?

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Llama 2-13B share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-13B has 32.