Model comparison
Falcon-180B vs Gemma 3 12B
Falcon-180B and Gemma 3 12B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.2 vs 32.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.
Technology Innovation Institute
GoogleSummary
- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and Gemma 3 12B in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Gemma 3 12B leads 45.7 to 25.2.
Side by side
| Falcon-180B | Gemma 3 12B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Technology Innovation Institute | |
| Noometry Index | 32.2 | 32.1 |
| Released | 2023-09-06 | 2025-03-12 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.05 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Results tracked | 16 | 24 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 3 12B: 31.7 (#280)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 17.4% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1281 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 3 12B: 25.5 (#108)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 30.4% |
Reasoning Falcon-180B leads
Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269), Gemma 3 12B: 15.7 (#313)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1007 | 1309 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.13 | 123.5 |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 48.8% |
| LMCA | — | 4.5% |
| HellaSwag | 89% | — |
| LAMBADA | 79.8% | — |
| PIQA | 84.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 87.1% | — |
Math Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 3 12B: 22.3 (#279)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 16.7% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1307 |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 3 12B: 26.5 (#257)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 39.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1248 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 67.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 89% | — |
| MMLU | 70.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 64.2% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 3 12B: —
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| MindCube | — | 46.7% |
Multilingual Gemma 3 12B leads
Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286), Gemma 3 12B: 45.7 (#165)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1000 | 1318 |
| LMArena German | — | 1370 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1335 |
Instruction Following Gemma 3 12B leads
Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286), Gemma 3 12B: 68.6 (#186)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1047 | 1299 |
Long Context Not comparable
Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 3 12B: 40.0 (#162)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1317 |
Writing & Preference Gemma 3 12B leads
Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295), Gemma 3 12B: 47.5 (#209)
| Benchmark | Falcon-180B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1054 | 1334 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1089 | 1331 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1013 | 1334 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1126 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Falcon-180B better than Gemma 3 12B?
Falcon-180B and Gemma 3 12B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.2 vs 32.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Gemma 3 12B share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 12B has 24.