Model comparison

Falcon-180B vs Gemma 3 27B

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.8 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 27B Google

30.5

Rank #277 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Falcon-180B scores higher in 1 category and Gemma 3 27B in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemma 3 27B leads 52.7 to 29.3.

Side by side

Falcon-180B and Gemma 3 27B specifications
Falcon-180BGemma 3 27B
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteGoogle
Noometry Index31.830.5
Released2023-09-062025-03-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.08
Output $ / M tokens—$0.16
Results tracked1643

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 3 27B: 22.1 (#329)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 3 27B
Aider Polyglot—4.9%
SciCode—21.2%
LiveBench Coding—39.9%
LMArena Coding—1322

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 3 27B: 24.9 (#105)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 3 27B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—29.5%

Reasoning Falcon-180B leads

Falcon-180B: 18.3 (#266), Gemma 3 27B: 16.3 (#297)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 3 27B
LMArena Hard Prompts10071340
Epoch Capabilities Index111.89130.04
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.4%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—43.8%
DTBench—52.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis—51.5%
LMCA—12.3%
HellaSwag89%—
LAMBADA79.8%—
LiveBench—50%
PIQA84.9%—
WinoGrande87.1%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 3 27B: 24.4 (#261)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 3 27B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—22.5%
LiveBench Math—55.4%
LMArena Math—1312
MATH Level 5—74%
GSM8K54.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 3 27B: 25.4 (#256)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 3 27B
GPQA Diamond—47.7%
Confabulations—40.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.4%
LMArena Expert—1303
ARC (AI2) Challenge67.8%—
BoolQ89%—
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA64.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 3 27B: 32.0 (#94)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 3 27B
LMArena Vision—1165
GeoBench—52%

Multilingual Gemma 3 27B leads

Falcon-180B: 25.3 (#281), Gemma 3 27B: 47.0 (#150)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 3 27B
LMArena Non-English10001334
LMArena Chinese—1347
LMArena French—1368
LMArena German—1362
LMArena Japanese—1287
LMArena Korean—1308
LMArena Russian—1349
LMArena Spanish—1348

Instruction Following Gemma 3 27B leads

Falcon-180B: 53.6 (#281), Gemma 3 27B: 70.8 (#155)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 3 27B
LMArena Instruction Following10471321
LiveBench Instruction Following—74.9%

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon-180B: —, Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#288)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 3 27B
Fiction.LiveBench—33.3%
LMArena Longer Query—1333

Writing & Preference Gemma 3 27B leads

Falcon-180B: 29.3 (#290), Gemma 3 27B: 52.7 (#161)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon-180BGemma 3 27B
LMArena Text10541358
LMArena Creative Writing10891346
LMArena Multi-Turn10131344
Short-Story Creative Writing—79.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1266
LiveBench Language—34.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon-180B better than Gemma 3 27B?

Falcon-180B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.8 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Falcon-180B and Gemma 3 27B share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Falcon-180B has 16 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 27B has 43.

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