Model comparison

Gemma 1.1 7b IT vs Qwen3 32B

Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 31.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 1.1 7b IT Google

31.3

Rank #277 Confirmed

Qwen3 32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.2

Rank #172 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 1.1 7b IT scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 32B in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3 32B leads 52.9 to 30.4.

Side by side

Gemma 1.1 7b IT and Qwen3 32B specifications
Gemma 1.1 7b ITQwen3 32B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index31.339.2
Released—2025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked1926

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 32B leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 31.5 (#284), Qwen3 32B: 37.7 (#190)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITQwen3 32B
LMArena Coding10841358
Aider Polyglot—40%
SciCode—35.4%
HumanEval+35.4%—
MBPP+45%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: —, Qwen3 32B: 32.6 (#62)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITQwen3 32B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—48.7%

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 20.5 (#238), Qwen3 32B: 20.2 (#241)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITQwen3 32B
LMArena Hard Prompts10711334
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—5%
DTBench—67.5%
LMCA—17.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—138.51

Math Qwen3 32B leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 32.0 (#220), Qwen3 32B: 39.7 (#99)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITQwen3 32B
LMArena Math11071399
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—66.9%

Knowledge Qwen3 32B leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 28.3 (#247), Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#125)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITQwen3 32B
LMArena Expert10391362
GPQA Diamond—65.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.9%

Multilingual Qwen3 32B leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 28.1 (#273), Qwen3 32B: 45.6 (#167)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITQwen3 32B
LMArena Non-English10521317
LMArena Chinese10611357
LMArena German10541341
LMArena Russian10461311
LMArena French1065—
LMArena Japanese971—
LMArena Korean988—
LMArena Spanish1049—

Instruction Following Qwen3 32B leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 54.0 (#283), Qwen3 32B: 68.9 (#179)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITQwen3 32B
LMArena Instruction Following10571305

Long Context Qwen3 32B leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 32.1 (#272), Qwen3 32B: 43.8 (#87)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITQwen3 32B
LMArena Longer Query10561327
Fiction.LiveBench—74.2%

Writing & Preference Qwen3 32B leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 30.4 (#288), Qwen3 32B: 52.9 (#163)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITQwen3 32B
LMArena Text10941340
LMArena Creative Writing10601297
LMArena Multi-Turn10401331

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 1.1 7b IT better than Qwen3 32B?

Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 31.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 1.1 7b IT or Qwen3 32B better for coding?

Qwen3 32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.7 versus 31.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 1.1 7b IT and Qwen3 32B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 1.1 7b IT has 19 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.

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