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Model comparison

Gemma 2 9B vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2 9B Google

25.9

Rank #341 Confirmed

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

43.0

Rank #102 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 9B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 8 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 41.8 to 9.7.

Side by side

Gemma 2 9BQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index25.943.0
Released2024-06-242025-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$2
Results tracked3525

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 42.5 (#98)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Coding11731440
BigCodeBench Instruct34.7%—
LiveBench Coding22.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete40.6%—

Reasoning Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 31.1 (#81)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts11711428
Kagi LLM Benchmark—66.7%
LiveBench Reasoning15.2%—
LiveBench Data Analysis36.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index119.83—
LiveBench28.7%—
PIQA83.7%—

Math Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 38.8 (#126)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Math11831440
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250.6%—
Omni-MATH—46.7%
LiveBench Math19.8%—
MATH Level 521%—
GSM8K84.9%—

Knowledge Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.8 (#106)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Expert11471417
GPQA Diamond27.5%—
MMLU-Pro—78.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%
GPQA (HELM)—63%
BoolQ85.7%—
MMLU72.1%—

Multilingual Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.1 (#93)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Non-English11881407
LMArena Chinese11851460
LMArena French11901413
LMArena German11861417
LMArena Japanese11441395
LMArena Korean11371364
LMArena Russian12001404
LMArena Spanish12001435

Instruction Following Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 70.8 (#159)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following11781389
LiveBench Instruction Following52.6%—
IFEval—81%

Long Context Too close to call

Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#223)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query11971403
Fiction.LiveBench—55.6%

Writing & Preference Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.0 (#121)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BQwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Text12071417
LMArena Creative Writing12061334
LMArena Multi-Turn11931416
EQ-Bench Creative Writing841—
WildBench—80.7%
LiveBench Language25.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 2 9B better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 2 9B or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.5 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 9B and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 9B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.

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