Noometry

Model comparison

Gemma 2 9B vs Qwen3 Max

Qwen3 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.7 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2 9B Google

25.9

Rank #341 Confirmed

Qwen3 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

43.7

Rank #87 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 9B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 Max in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3 Max leads 48.1 to 9.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 21% for Gemma 2 9B and 97.1% for Qwen3 Max.
  • Gemma 2 9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 2 9BQwen3 Max
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index25.943.7
Released2024-06-242025-09-23
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.20
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked3533

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 Max leads

Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304), Qwen3 Max: 43.0 (#93)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3 Max
LMArena Coding11731456
BigCodeBench Instruct34.7%—
LiveBench Coding22.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete40.6%—
ALE-Bench—370.45

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: —, Qwen3 Max: —

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3 Max
Vending-Bench 2—71.56

Reasoning Qwen3 Max leads

Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309), Qwen3 Max: 22.6 (#190)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3 Max
LMArena Hard Prompts11711448
Epoch Capabilities Index119.83142.38
Kagi LLM Benchmark—72.5%
NYT Connections (extended)—30.1%
Chess Puzzles—4%
LiveBench Reasoning15.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—5%
DTBench—82.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis36.4%—
LMCA—28.3%
LiveBench28.7%—
PIQA83.7%—

Math Qwen3 Max leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318), Qwen3 Max: 38.7 (#131)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3 Max
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250.6%73.3%
LMArena Math11831446
MATH Level 521%97.1%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—18.9%
LiveBench Math19.8%—
GSM8K84.9%—

Knowledge Qwen3 Max leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305), Qwen3 Max: 48.1 (#78)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3 Max
GPQA Diamond27.5%72.6%
LMArena Expert11471455
SimpleQA Verified—48.7%
BoolQ85.7%—
MMLU72.1%—

Multilingual Qwen3 Max leads

Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238), Qwen3 Max: 53.7 (#62)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3 Max
LMArena Non-English11881429
LMArena Chinese11851478
LMArena French11901449
LMArena German11861463
LMArena Japanese11441397
LMArena Korean11371399
LMArena Russian12001428
LMArena Spanish12001462

Instruction Following Qwen3 Max leads

Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269), Qwen3 Max: 74.8 (#87)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3 Max
LMArena Instruction Following11781419
LiveBench Instruction Following52.6%—

Long Context Qwen3 Max leads

Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233), Qwen3 Max: 41.6 (#134)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3 Max
LMArena Longer Query11971438
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%
CL-bench—14.5%

Writing & Preference Qwen3 Max leads

Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281), Qwen3 Max: 62.4 (#76)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3 Max
LMArena Text12071439
LMArena Creative Writing12061402
LMArena Multi-Turn11931446
EQ-Bench Creative Writing841—
LiveBench Language25.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 2 9B better than Qwen3 Max?

Qwen3 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.7 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

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

Qwen3 Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.0 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

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

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 9B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Max has 33.

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