Model comparison

Falcon 2 11B vs Gemini 3.8 Flash

Gemini 3.8 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#13); 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 3.8 Flash specifications
Falcon 2 11BGemini 3.8 Flash
ProviderTechnology Innovation InstituteGoogle
Noometry Index—59.5
Released2024-05-092026-09-02
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 3.8 Flash: 56.4 (#17)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BGemini 3.8 Flash
DeepSWE—73.8%
FrontierCode—41.2%
CursorBench—39.6%
LMArena WebDev—1581
FrontierSWE—19.6%
SciCode—56.6%
LMArena Coding—1512
ALE-Bench—1,270

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Gemini 3.8 Flash: 40.3 (#22)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BGemini 3.8 Flash
APEX-Agents—64.3%
GDP.pdf—23.4%
Vending-Bench 2—5,094

Reasoning Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Gemini 3.8 Flash: 64.7 (#13)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BGemini 3.8 Flash
Epoch Capabilities Index109.25157.13
NYT Connections (extended)—97.4%
CritPt—18.3%
Chess Puzzles—61%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1506
Mystery Game Puzzles—47%
DTBench—95.7%
LMCA—52.9%
Surface Evolver Bench—76.9%
HellaSwag82.9%—
WinoGrande78.3%—

Math Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Gemini 3.8 Flash: 65.2 (#22)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BGemini 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
GSM8K53.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Gemini 3.8 Flash: 74.9 (#2)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BGemini 3.8 Flash
GPQA Diamond—95.4%
Humanity's Last Exam—44.5%
SimpleQA Verified—69.7%
LMArena Expert—1529
MMLU58.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Gemini 3.8 Flash: 40.9 (#33)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BGemini 3.8 Flash
LMArena Vision—1312
Blueprint-Bench 2—38.6%
Furniture Assembly—31.7%

Multilingual Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Gemini 3.8 Flash: 57.9 (#5)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BGemini 3.8 Flash
LMArena Non-English—1486
LMArena Chinese—1547
LMArena French—1502
LMArena German—1470
LMArena Japanese—1505
LMArena Korean—1479
LMArena Russian—1507
LMArena Spanish—1492

Instruction Following Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Gemini 3.8 Flash: 78.2 (#11)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BGemini 3.8 Flash
LMArena Instruction Following—1489

Long Context Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Gemini 3.8 Flash: 46.2 (#23)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BGemini 3.8 Flash
LMArena Longer Query—1506

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Falcon 2 11B: —, Gemini 3.8 Flash: 72.1 (#16)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkFalcon 2 11BGemini 3.8 Flash
LMArena Text—1494
LMArena Creative Writing—1485
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1748
LMArena Multi-Turn—1503

Frequently asked questions

Is Falcon 2 11B better than Gemini 3.8 Flash?

Gemini 3.8 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#13); Falcon 2 11B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Falcon 2 11B and Gemini 3.8 Flash share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Falcon 2 11B has 5 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.8 Flash has 46.

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