Noometry

Model comparison

Gemma 2 9B vs Qwen3.7 Flash

Qwen3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2 9B Google

25.9

Rank #341 Confirmed

Qwen3.7 Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

39.9

Rank #156 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 9B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.7 Flash in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.7 Flash leads 48.9 to 9.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 0.6% for Gemma 2 9B and 86.7% for Qwen3.7 Flash.
  • Gemma 2 9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 2 9BQwen3.7 Flash
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index25.939.9
Released2024-06-242026-07-15
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.03
Output $ / M tokens—$0.13
Results tracked357

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304), Qwen3.7 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.7 Flash
BigCodeBench Instruct34.7%—
LiveBench Coding22.5%—
LMArena Coding1173—
BigCodeBench Complete40.6%—

Reasoning Qwen3.7 Flash leads

Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309), Qwen3.7 Flash: 28.2 (#108)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.7 Flash
Epoch Capabilities Index119.83144.64
NYT Connections (extended)—43.8%
Chess Puzzles—23%
LiveBench Reasoning15.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1171—
Mystery Game Puzzles—15%
LiveBench Data Analysis36.4%—
LiveBench28.7%—
PIQA83.7%—

Math Qwen3.7 Flash leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318), Qwen3.7 Flash: 38.3 (#140)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.7 Flash
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250.6%86.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—19.3%
LiveBench Math19.8%—
LMArena Math1183—
MATH Level 521%—
GSM8K84.9%—

Knowledge Qwen3.7 Flash leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305), Qwen3.7 Flash: 48.9 (#75)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.7 Flash
GPQA Diamond27.5%82.3%
LMArena Expert1147—
BoolQ85.7%—
MMLU72.1%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238), Qwen3.7 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.7 Flash
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), Qwen3.7 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.7 Flash
LiveBench Instruction Following52.6%—
LMArena Instruction Following1178—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233), Qwen3.7 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.7 Flash
LMArena Longer Query1197—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281), Qwen3.7 Flash: —

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.7 Flash
LMArena Text1207—
LMArena Creative Writing1206—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing841—
LMArena Multi-Turn1193—
LiveBench Language25.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 2 9B better than Qwen3.7 Flash?

Qwen3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 9B and Qwen3.7 Flash share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 9B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.7 Flash has 7.

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