Noometry

Model comparison

Gemma 2 9B vs Qwen3.5 Plus

Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2 9B Google

25.9

Rank #341 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

42.9

Rank #106 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 9B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 Plus in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.5 Plus leads 49.6 to 9.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 0.6% for Gemma 2 9B and 86.7% for Qwen3.5 Plus.
  • Gemma 2 9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 2 9BQwen3.5 Plus
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index25.942.9
Released2024-06-242026-02-16
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$2.40
Results tracked3515

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.5 Plus
BigCodeBench Instruct34.7%—
LiveBench Coding22.5%—
LMArena Coding1173—
BigCodeBench Complete40.6%—
ALE-Bench—621.92

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: —, Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.5 Plus
Vending-Bench 2—0.54

Reasoning Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309), Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.8 (#74)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.5 Plus
Epoch Capabilities Index119.83146.78
Chess Puzzles—22%
LiveBench Reasoning15.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1171—
Mystery Game Puzzles—17%
DTBench—80.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis36.4%—
LMCA—36.4%
LiveBench28.7%—
PIQA83.7%—

Math Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318), Qwen3.5 Plus: 49.6 (#61)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.5 Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250.6%86.7%
LiveBench Math19.8%—
LMArena Math1183—
MATH Level 521%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—21%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%
GSM8K84.9%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305), Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#83)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.5 Plus
GPQA Diamond27.5%84.8%
SimpleQA Verified—25.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.7%
LMArena Expert1147—
BoolQ85.7%—
MMLU72.1%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Non-English1188—
LMArena Chinese1185—
LMArena French1190—
LMArena German1186—
LMArena Japanese1144—
LMArena Korean1137—
LMArena Russian1200—
LMArena Spanish1200—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.5 Plus
LiveBench Instruction Following52.6%—
LMArena Instruction Following1178—

Long Context Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233), Qwen3.5 Plus: 43.0 (#113)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.5 Plus
CL-bench—19.8%
CL-bench Life—12.4%
LMArena Longer Query1197—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Text1207—
LMArena Creative Writing1206—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing841—
LMArena Multi-Turn1193—
LiveBench Language25.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 2 9B better than Qwen3.5 Plus?

Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

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

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 9B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Plus has 15.

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