Model comparison

Falcon 2 11B vs Gemini 3.6 Flash

Gemini 3.6 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#30); Falcon 2 11B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
  • Falcon 2 11B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Falcon 2 11B and Gemini 3.6 Flash specifications
Falcon 2 11BGemini 3.6 Flash
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteGoogle
Noometry Index—54.1
Released2024-05-092026-07-21
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.75
Output $ / M tokens—$3.75
Results tracked546

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 49.6 (#45)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BGemini 3.6 Flash
DeepSWE—46.7%
FrontierCode—34.4%
LMArena WebDev—1536
SciCode—52.7%
WeirdML—56.1%
LMArena Coding—1492
ALE-Bench—715.52

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.4 (#56)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BGemini 3.6 Flash
APEX-Agents—46.9%
GDP.pdf—14%

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.9 (#20)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BGemini 3.6 Flash
Epoch Capabilities Index109.25154.36
ARC-AGI-2—60.4%
NYT Connections (extended)—89%
ARC-AGI-1—91.2%
CritPt—10.6%
Chess Puzzles—43%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1486
Mystery Game Puzzles—30%
DTBench—95.5%
LMCA—44.9%
HellaSwag82.9%—
WinoGrande78.3%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.0 (#33)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BGemini 3.6 Flash
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—58.9%
FrontierMath Tier 4—22%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—70.8%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—94.2%
ProofBench—36%
LMArena Math—1504
GSM8K53.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#7)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BGemini 3.6 Flash
GPQA Diamond—94.1%
SimpleQA Verified—66.2%
LMArena Expert—1489
MMLU58.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.7 (#55)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BGemini 3.6 Flash
LMArena Vision—1297
Blueprint-Bench 2—31.2%
Furniture Assembly—23.3%
LMArena Document—1456

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.8 (#17)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BGemini 3.6 Flash
LMArena Non-English—1470
LMArena Chinese—1530
LMArena French—1501
LMArena German—1478
LMArena Japanese—1477
LMArena Korean—1435
LMArena Russian—1490
LMArena Spanish—1477

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.2 (#27)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BGemini 3.6 Flash
LMArena Instruction Following—1467

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#47)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BGemini 3.6 Flash
LMArena Longer Query—1475

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.3 (#26)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BGemini 3.6 Flash
LMArena Text—1478
LMArena Creative Writing—1464
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1604
LMArena Multi-Turn—1481

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon 2 11B better than Gemini 3.6 Flash?

Gemini 3.6 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#30); Falcon 2 11B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon 2 11B and Gemini 3.6 Flash share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon 2 11B has 5 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46.

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