# Falcon-180B vs Llama 2-34B

> Falcon-180B has enough public results to be ranked (#260); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-180b-vs-llama-2-34b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 8

## Summary

- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both.
- Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-180B | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | — |
| Rank | 260 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | 105.2 |
| PIQA | 84.9% | 81.9% |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | 76.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 44.1% |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |

## Math

- Falcon-180B: —
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 54.4% | 42.2% |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-180B: —
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | 54.5% |
| BoolQ | 89% | 83.7% |
| MMLU | 70.6% | 62.6% |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | 58.2% |
| TriviaQA | — | 84.6% |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-180B better than Llama 2-34B?

Falcon-180B has enough public results to be ranked (#260); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Llama 2-34B share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-34B has 10.