Model comparison

Gemma 2 9B vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.4 to 25.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2 9B Google

25.7

Rank #334 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct leads 20.0 to 15.3.

Side by side

Gemma 2 9B and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct specifications
Gemma 2 9BQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index25.729.4
Released2024-06-242024-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$2.80
Output $ / M tokens—$8.40
Results tracked356

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: 29.0 (#299), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct34.7%—
LiveBench Coding22.5%—
LMArena Coding1174—
BigCodeBench Complete40.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: —, Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.4 (#136)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
OSWorld—5%

Reasoning Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct leads

Gemma 2 9B: 15.3 (#306), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.0 (#228)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
Kagi LLM Benchmark—36%
LiveBench Reasoning15.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1172—
LiveBench Data Analysis36.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index119.78—
LiveBench28.7%—
PIQA83.7%—

Math Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: 9.3 (#312), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250.6%—
LiveBench Math19.8%—
LMArena Math1183—
MATH Level 521%—
GSM8K84.9%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#300), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
GPQA Diamond27.5%—
LMArena Expert1147—
BoolQ85.7%—
MMLU72.1%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: —, Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 32.9 (#92)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Vision—1107
Video-MME—73.5%
GeoBench—62%
SpatialViz-Bench—33.3%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: 36.8 (#233), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1188—
LMArena Chinese1185—
LMArena French1189—
LMArena German1186—
LMArena Japanese1144—
LMArena Korean1137—
LMArena Russian1200—
LMArena Spanish1200—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: 57.8 (#264), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LiveBench Instruction Following52.6%—
LMArena Instruction Following1178—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#228), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1197—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: 32.3 (#276), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Text1207—
LMArena Creative Writing1206—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing841—
LMArena Multi-Turn1193—
LiveBench Language25.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 2 9B better than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.4 to 25.7 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 9B and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 9B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6.

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