Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 4 Argon vs Qwen3-30B-A3B

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 38.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 4 Argon Google

56.5

Rank #24 Confirmed

Qwen3-30B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

38.9

Rank #179 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 4 Argon scores higher in 9 categories and Qwen3-30B-A3B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 4 Argon leads 73.9 to 37.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 61.8% for Gemini 4 Argon and 33.3% for Qwen3-30B-A3B.
  • Qwen3-30B-A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 4 ArgonQwen3-30B-A3B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index56.538.9
Released2026-09-302025-04-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—41K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.12
Output $ / M tokens—$0.50
Results tracked2132

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 62.0 (#9), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.5 (#194)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonQwen3-30B-A3B
SciCode61.8%33.3%
LMArena Coding15501416
LMArena WebDev1678—
FrontierSWE55%—
WeirdML—29.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 49.2 (#8), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.8 (#82)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonQwen3-30B-A3B
APEX-Agents82.2%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41.4%
Vending-Bench 213,718—

Reasoning Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 44.2 (#47), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 22.2 (#204)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonQwen3-30B-A3B
CritPt27.1%0.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts15481398
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
Chess Puzzles—8%
DTBench—69.3%
LMCA—22.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—139.63

Math Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 73.9 (#17), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.4 (#157)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Math15361394
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—47.8%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—70.3%
ProofBench99%—

Knowledge Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 43.9 (#89), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.8 (#105)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Expert15531396
GPQA Diamond—70.1%
Confabulations—12.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 4 Argon: 46.5 (#14), Qwen3-30B-A3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonQwen3-30B-A3B
Blueprint-Bench 254.4%—

Multilingual Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 60.3 (#1), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.5 (#132)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Non-English15231372
LMArena Chinese16101433
LMArena Russian15371370
LMArena Spanish14971404
LMArena French—1418
LMArena German—1380
LMArena Japanese—1337
LMArena Korean—1331

Instruction Following Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 80.1 (#2), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.0 (#142)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following15381363

Long Context Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 47.6 (#15), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#283)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query15491379
Fiction.LiveBench—40.6%

Writing & Preference Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 71.4 (#19), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.6 (#143)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Text15341384
LMArena Creative Writing15311317
LMArena Multi-Turn15571378
Short-Story Creative Writing—75.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 4 Argon better than Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 38.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 4 Argon or Qwen3-30B-A3B better for coding?

Gemini 4 Argon scores higher on coding benchmarks: 62.0 versus 37.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 4 Argon and Qwen3-30B-A3B share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 4 Argon has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32.

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