# Falcon-180B vs Qwen-7B

> Falcon-180B has enough public results to be ranked (#260); Qwen-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-180b-vs-qwen-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 7

## Summary

- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both.

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-180B | Qwen-7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | — |
| Rank | 260 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269)
- Qwen-7B: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen-7B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | 106.83 |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | 67.9% |
| PIQA | 84.9% | 77.9% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 45% |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |

## Math

- Falcon-180B: —
- Qwen-7B: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen-7B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 54.4% | 51.7% |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-180B: —
- Qwen-7B: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen-7B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | 75.3% |
| BoolQ | 89% | 76.4% |
| MMLU | 70.6% | 45% |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286)
- Qwen-7B: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286)
- Qwen-7B: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295)
- Qwen-7B: —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | — |

## FAQ

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

Falcon-180B has enough public results to be ranked (#260); Qwen-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-7B has 8.