Noometry

Model comparison

Gemma 2 9B vs Qwen3.5 35B-A3B

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2 9B Google

25.9

Rank #341 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

42.0

Rank #123 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 9B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 35B-A3B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads 47.8 to 9.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 0.6% for Gemma 2 9B and 70% for Qwen3.5 35B-A3B.

Side by side

Gemma 2 9BQwen3.5 35B-A3B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index25.942.0
Released2024-06-242026-02-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$2
Results tracked3528

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 33.8 (#251)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Coding11731410
LMArena WebDev—1254
SciCode—29.3%
BigCodeBench Instruct34.7%—
LiveBench Coding22.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete40.6%—

Reasoning Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 24.6 (#161)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Hard Prompts11711400
Epoch Capabilities Index119.83142.52
CritPt—0.6%
Chess Puzzles—10%
LiveBench Reasoning15.2%—
DTBench—80%
LiveBench Data Analysis36.4%—
LMCA—29.5%
LiveBench28.7%—
PIQA83.7%—

Math Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 39.9 (#97)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.5 35B-A3B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250.6%70%
LMArena Math11831404
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—56%
LiveBench Math19.8%—
MATH Level 521%—
GSM8K84.9%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 47.8 (#79)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.5 35B-A3B
GPQA Diamond27.5%83.5%
LMArena Expert11471408
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.5%
BoolQ85.7%—
MMLU72.1%—

Multilingual Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 50.0 (#127)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Non-English11881378
LMArena Chinese11851457
LMArena French11901412
LMArena German11861367
LMArena Japanese11441325
LMArena Korean11371356
LMArena Russian12001376
LMArena Spanish12001392

Instruction Following Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 72.8 (#128)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following11781379
LiveBench Instruction Following52.6%—

Long Context Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 42.4 (#127)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query11971389

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 57.9 (#124)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Text12071395
LMArena Creative Writing12061346
LMArena Multi-Turn11931390
EQ-Bench Creative Writing841—
LiveBench Language25.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 2 9B better than Qwen3.5 35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 2 9B or Qwen3.5 35B-A3B better for coding?

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 9B and Qwen3.5 35B-A3B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 9B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 35B-A3B has 28.

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