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Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs Gemini 3.8 Flash

Gemini 3.8 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Falcon-180B Technology Innovation Institute

32.2

Rank #260 Confirmed

Gemini 3.8 Flash Google

61.8

Rank #11 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3.8 Flash in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.8 Flash leads 76.9 to 19.1.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-180BGemini 3.8 Flash
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteGoogle
Noometry Index32.261.8
Released2023-09-062026-09-02
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.75
Output $ / M tokens—$3.75
Results tracked1650

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3.8 Flash: 59.2 (#15)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3.8 Flash
DeepSWE—73.8%
FrontierCode—41.2%
CursorBench—39.6%
LMArena WebDev—1584
FrontierSWE—19.6%
SciCode—56.6%
WeirdML—84.8%
LMArena Coding—1510
ALE-Bench—1,270

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3.8 Flash: 41.8 (#21)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3.8 Flash
APEX-Agents—64.3%
Remote Labor Index—5.8%
GDP.pdf—23.4%
Vending-Bench 2—5,094

Reasoning Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Gemini 3.8 Flash: 76.9 (#5)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3.8 Flash
LMArena Hard Prompts10071508
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13156.71
ARC-AGI-2—89.2%
NYT Connections (extended)—97.4%
ARC-AGI-1—98.5%
CritPt—18.3%
Chess Puzzles—61%
Mystery Game Puzzles—47%
DTBench—95.7%
LMCA—52.9%
Surface Evolver Bench—76.9%
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3.8 Flash: 65.3 (#28)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3.8 Flash
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—68.4%
FrontierMath Tier 4—22%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—98.9%
ProofBench—48%
LMArena Math—1528
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3.8 Flash: 74.8 (#2)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3.8 Flash
GPQA Diamond—95.4%
Humanity's Last Exam—44.5%
SimpleQA Verified—69.7%
LMArena Expert—1524
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3.8 Flash: 40.7 (#45)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3.8 Flash
LMArena Vision—1314
Blueprint-Bench 2—38.6%
Furniture Assembly—31.7%

Multilingual Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Gemini 3.8 Flash: 58.0 (#5)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3.8 Flash
LMArena Non-English10001491
LMArena Chinese—1554
LMArena French—1498
LMArena German—1493
LMArena Japanese—1502
LMArena Korean—1459
LMArena Russian—1515
LMArena Spanish—1485

Instruction Following Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Gemini 3.8 Flash: 78.0 (#13)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3.8 Flash
LMArena Instruction Following10471490

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3.8 Flash: 46.3 (#24)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3.8 Flash
LMArena Longer Query—1508

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Gemini 3.8 Flash: 72.2 (#15)

BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3.8 Flash
LMArena Text10541499
LMArena Creative Writing10891492
LMArena Multi-Turn10131501
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1748

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than Gemini 3.8 Flash?

Gemini 3.8 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Gemini 3.8 Flash share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.8 Flash has 50.

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