# Falcon-180B vs Qwen3 32B

> Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 31.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-180b-vs-qwen3-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 7

## Summary

- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 32B in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3 32B leads 53.1 to 29.3.

## Snapshot

| | Falcon-180B | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.8 | 38.8 |
| Rank | 254 | 166 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Output $/M | — | $2.80 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Falcon-180B: —
- Qwen3 32B: 37.3 (#184)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 40% |
| SciCode | — | 35.4% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1358 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Falcon-180B: —
- Qwen3 32B: 32.3 (#58)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 48.7% |

## Reasoning

- Falcon-180B: 18.3 (#266)
- Qwen3 32B: 19.6 (#233)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1335 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.89 | 138.51 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 54.9% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| DTBench | — | 67.5% |
| LMCA | — | 17.3% |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |

## Math

- Falcon-180B: —
- Qwen3 32B: 37.9 (#89)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 66.9% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1399 |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Falcon-180B: —
- Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#112)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.7% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.9% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1362 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Falcon-180B: 25.3 (#281)
- Qwen3 32B: 45.8 (#162)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1317 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1357 |
| LMArena German | — | 1341 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1311 |

## Instruction Following

- Falcon-180B: 53.6 (#281)
- Qwen3 32B: 69.1 (#174)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1305 |

## Long Context

- Falcon-180B: —
- Qwen3 32B: 43.7 (#83)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 74.2% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1327 |

## Writing & Preference

- Falcon-180B: 29.3 (#290)
- Qwen3 32B: 53.1 (#158)

| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1340 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1297 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1331 |

## FAQ

### Is Falcon-180B better than Qwen3 32B?

Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 31.8 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Qwen3 32B share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.