Noometry

Model comparison

Gemma 2 9B vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.5 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2 9B Google

25.9

Rank #341 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Max Preview Alibaba (Qwen)

51.5

Rank #43 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 9B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Max Preview in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads 57.6 to 9.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 0.6% for Gemma 2 9B and 91.1% for Qwen3.6 Max Preview.
  • Gemma 2 9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 2 9BQwen3.6 Max Preview
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index25.951.5
Released2024-06-242026-04-20
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.30
Output $ / M tokens—$7.80
Results tracked3529

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 48.7 (#54)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Coding11731471
SWE-bench Verified—76.7%
LMArena WebDev—1482
BigCodeBench Instruct34.7%—
LiveBench Coding22.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete40.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.6 Max Preview
Vending-Bench 2—4,254

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 41.7 (#53)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Hard Prompts11711457
Epoch Capabilities Index119.83149.24
SimpleBench—63%
NYT Connections (extended)—74.1%
Chess Puzzles—20%
LiveBench Reasoning15.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—19%
DTBench—87.2%
LiveBench Data Analysis36.4%—
LMCA—42.5%
LiveBench28.7%—
PIQA83.7%—

Math Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.1 (#46)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.6 Max Preview
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250.6%91.1%
LMArena Math11831465
LiveBench Math19.8%—
MATH Level 521%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—23.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—4.2%
GSM8K84.9%—

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 57.6 (#39)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.6 Max Preview
GPQA Diamond27.5%87.4%
LMArena Expert11471478
SimpleQA Verified—52%
BoolQ85.7%—
MMLU72.1%—

Multilingual Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.2 (#48)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Non-English11881437
LMArena Chinese11851487
LMArena French11901449
LMArena Russian12001445
LMArena Spanish12001454
LMArena German1186—
LMArena Japanese1144—
LMArena Korean1137—

Instruction Following Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 75.7 (#55)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Instruction Following11781438
LiveBench Instruction Following52.6%—

Long Context Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 44.6 (#61)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Longer Query11971457

Writing & Preference Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 63.8 (#60)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Text12071447
LMArena Creative Writing12061435
LMArena Multi-Turn11931456
EQ-Bench Creative Writing841—
LiveBench Language25.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 2 9B better than Qwen3.6 Max Preview?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.5 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 2 9B or Qwen3.6 Max Preview better for coding?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.7 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 9B and Qwen3.6 Max Preview share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 9B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Max Preview has 29.

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