Noometry

Model comparison

Gemma 2 9B vs Qwen3.7 Plus

Qwen3.7 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2 9B Google

25.9

Rank #341 Confirmed

Qwen3.7 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

45.3

Rank #72 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 9B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.7 Plus in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.7 Plus leads 54.9 to 9.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 0.6% for Gemma 2 9B and 93.3% for Qwen3.7 Plus.
  • Gemma 2 9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 2 9BQwen3.7 Plus
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index25.945.3
Released2024-06-242026-06-02
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$1.60
Results tracked3532

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304), Qwen3.7 Plus: 36.6 (#206)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Coding11731473
FrontierCode—10.2%
SciCode—45.5%
BigCodeBench Instruct34.7%—
LiveBench Coding22.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete40.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: —, Qwen3.7 Plus: 21.4 (#138)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.7 Plus
OSWorld 2.0—2.8%

Reasoning Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309), Qwen3.7 Plus: 39.3 (#59)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Hard Prompts11711460
Epoch Capabilities Index119.83147.37
NYT Connections (extended)—74.8%
CritPt—9.1%
Chess Puzzles—24%
LiveBench Reasoning15.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—17%
DTBench—84%
LiveBench Data Analysis36.4%—
LMCA—37.6%
LiveBench28.7%—
PIQA83.7%—

Math Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318), Qwen3.7 Plus: 50.5 (#56)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.7 Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250.6%93.3%
LMArena Math11831466
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—34.4%
LiveBench Math19.8%—
MATH Level 521%—
GSM8K84.9%—

Knowledge Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305), Qwen3.7 Plus: 54.9 (#51)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.7 Plus
GPQA Diamond27.5%87.9%
LMArena Expert11471467
BoolQ85.7%—
MMLU72.1%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: —, Qwen3.7 Plus: 41.8 (#33)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Vision—1279
LMArena Document—1444

Multilingual Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238), Qwen3.7 Plus: 54.8 (#38)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Non-English11881445
LMArena Chinese11851510
LMArena French11901473
LMArena German11861471
LMArena Japanese11441413
LMArena Korean11371415
LMArena Russian12001457
LMArena Spanish12001457

Instruction Following Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269), Qwen3.7 Plus: 75.8 (#52)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Instruction Following11781440
LiveBench Instruction Following52.6%—

Long Context Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233), Qwen3.7 Plus: 44.5 (#65)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Longer Query11971455

Writing & Preference Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281), Qwen3.7 Plus: 64.3 (#56)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text12071455
LMArena Creative Writing12061439
LMArena Multi-Turn11931460
EQ-Bench Creative Writing841—
LiveBench Language25.5%—

Frequently asked questions

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

Qwen3.7 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 2 9B or Qwen3.7 Plus better for coding?

Qwen3.7 Plus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.6 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

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

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 9B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.7 Plus has 32.

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