# Falcon-180B vs Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)

> Falcon-180B has enough public results to be ranked (#260); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-180b-vs-qwen2-5-coder
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 6

## Summary

- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both.

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-180B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| 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)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | 113.14 |
| HellaSwag | 89% | 76.8% |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | 72.9% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |

## Math

- Falcon-180B: —
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 54.4% | 86.7% |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-180B: —
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | 60.9% |
| MMLU | 70.6% | 68% |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-180B better than Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)?

Falcon-180B has enough public results to be ranked (#260); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has 6.