Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs Gemini 3 Pro

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3 Pro in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 66.4 to 29.1.
  • Falcon-180B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and Gemini 3 Pro specifications
Falcon-180BGemini 3 Pro
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteGoogle
Noometry Index32.254.8
Released2023-09-062025-11-18
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked1667

Sponsored placements are available on pages like this one. Advertise on Noometry

Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3 Pro
SWE-bench Verified—72.9%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—74.2%
LMArena WebDev—1440
SWE-bench Multilingual—68.7%
GSO—18.6%
WeirdML—69.9%
LMArena Coding—1481
ALE-Bench—1,177
AlgoTune—1.83

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3 Pro
Terminal-Bench—69.4%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—72.5%
GDPval—40.3%
Remote Labor Index—1.3%
τ²-bench Airline—80.5%
τ²-bench Banking—18%
τ²-bench Retail—75.9%
τ²-bench Telecom—91%
DeepResearch Bench—46.3%
BALROG—58.1%
LMArena Search—1207
METR Time Horizons—71%
Vending-Bench 2—5,478

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Hard Prompts10071480
Epoch Capabilities Index112.13152.92
ARC-AGI-2—31.1%
SimpleBench—76.4%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—80.1%
NYT Connections (extended)—94.4%
ARC-AGI-1—75%
CritPt—6.9%
Chess Puzzles—31%
EnigmaEval—18.2%
ForecastBench—61.2
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3 Pro
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—67%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—91.4%
ProofBench—20%
Omni-MATH—55.5%
LMArena Math—1476
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—37.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—18.8%
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3 Pro
GPQA Diamond—92.6%
Humanity's Last Exam—37.5%
MMLU-Pro—90.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—13.6%
GPQA (HELM)—80.3%
LMArena Expert—1475
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Vision—1305
GeoBench—84%
VPCT—91%
LMArena Document—1434

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Non-English10001474
LMArena Chinese—1523
LMArena French—1492
LMArena German—1515
LMArena Japanese—1510
LMArena Korean—1448
LMArena Russian—1493
LMArena Spanish—1470

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Instruction Following10471458
IFEval—87.7%

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3 Pro
CL-bench—15.8%
LMArena Longer Query—1471

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Text10541479
LMArena Creative Writing10891482
LMArena Multi-Turn10131484
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1525
WildBench—85.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than Gemini 3 Pro?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 32.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Gemini 3 Pro share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3 Pro has 67.

Related comparisons

Go deeper