Noometry

Model comparison

Gemma 2 9B vs Qwen3.5-Flash

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2 9B Google

25.9

Rank #341 Confirmed

Qwen3.5-Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

42.5

Rank #112 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 9B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5-Flash in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.5-Flash leads 43.2 to 9.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 0.6% for Gemma 2 9B and 84.4% for Qwen3.5-Flash.
  • Gemma 2 9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 2 9BQwen3.5-Flash
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index25.942.5
Released2024-06-242026-02-23
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked3532

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304), Qwen3.5-Flash: 34.2 (#242)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Coding11731412
LMArena WebDev—1244
BigCodeBench Instruct34.7%—
LiveBench Coding22.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete40.6%—
ALE-Bench—221.8

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: —, Qwen3.5-Flash: —

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.5-Flash
Vending-Bench 2—462.69

Reasoning Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309), Qwen3.5-Flash: 33.7 (#72)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Hard Prompts11711403
Epoch Capabilities Index119.83143.98
Chess Puzzles—21%
LiveBench Reasoning15.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—20%
DTBench—82.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis36.4%—
LMCA—29.1%
LiveBench28.7%—
PIQA83.7%—

Math Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318), Qwen3.5-Flash: 37.4 (#158)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.5-Flash
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250.6%84.4%
LMArena Math11831407
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—18.2%
LiveBench Math19.8%—
MATH Level 521%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—6.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%
GSM8K84.9%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305), Qwen3.5-Flash: 43.2 (#93)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.5-Flash
GPQA Diamond27.5%82.3%
LMArena Expert11471407
SimpleQA Verified—20.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.5%
BoolQ85.7%—
MMLU72.1%—

Multilingual Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238), Qwen3.5-Flash: 50.5 (#121)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Non-English11881385
LMArena Chinese11851446
LMArena French11901412
LMArena German11861390
LMArena Japanese11441368
LMArena Korean11371344
LMArena Russian12001379
LMArena Spanish12001400

Instruction Following Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269), Qwen3.5-Flash: 72.6 (#139)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Instruction Following11781374
LiveBench Instruction Following52.6%—

Long Context Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233), Qwen3.5-Flash: 42.4 (#124)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Longer Query11971392

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281), Qwen3.5-Flash: 57.9 (#122)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Text12071397
LMArena Creative Writing12061343
LMArena Multi-Turn11931393
EQ-Bench Creative Writing841—
LiveBench Language25.5%—

Frequently asked questions

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

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

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

Qwen3.5-Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.2 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

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

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 9B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-Flash has 32.

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