Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.4 to 31.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation Institute
GoogleSummary
- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads 61.0 to 29.3.
- Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | |
| Noometry Index | 31.8 | 40.4 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | 2026-03-03 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1.05M |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.50 |
| Results tracked | 16 | 38 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.5 (#179)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1256 |
| SciCode | — | 41.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 52.2% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1400 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 797.73 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 29.9 (#72)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| DeepResearch Bench | — | 37.3% |
Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads
Falcon-180B: 18.3 (#266), Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.3 (#181)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1407 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.89 | 144.45 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 67.2% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 8.2% |
| CritPt | — | 1.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 25% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 3% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 63.3% |
| DTBench | — | 76.8% |
| LMCA | — | 35% |
| ForecastBench | — | 54.4 |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.5 (#82)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 27.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 80% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1427 |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.7 (#95)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 81.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 8.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 8.2% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1397 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 38.7 (#57)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1240 |
Multilingual Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads
Falcon-180B: 25.3 (#281), Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.5 (#82)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1410 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1461 |
| LMArena French | — | 1423 |
| LMArena German | — | 1429 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1411 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1393 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1420 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1420 |
Instruction Following Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads
Falcon-180B: 53.6 (#281), Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.9 (#126)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1376 |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#117)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1394 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite leads
Falcon-180B: 29.3 (#290), Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 61.0 (#90)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1416 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1401 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1417 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite?
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.4 to 31.8 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38.