# Falcon-180B vs Phi-3.5-mini

> Falcon-180B has enough public results to be ranked (#260); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-180b-vs-phi-3-5-mini
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 3

## Summary

- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both.

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-180B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 36.9 |
| Rank | 260 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Falcon-180B: —
- Phi-3.5-mini: 34.6 (#232)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 32.8% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.5% |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269)
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| PIQA | 84.9% | 81% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | — |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |

## Math

- Falcon-180B: —
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 54.4% | 86.2% |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-180B: —
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| BoolQ | 89% | 78% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286)
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286)
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295)
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-180B better than Phi-3.5-mini?

Falcon-180B has enough public results to be ranked (#260); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Phi-3.5-mini share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Phi-3.5-mini has 5.