Model comparison

Gemma 3 12B vs Qwen-7B

Gemma 3 12B has enough public results to be ranked (#262); Qwen-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 12B Google

32.1

Rank #262 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.

Side by side

Gemma 3 12B and Qwen-7B specifications
Gemma 3 12BQwen-7B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index32.1—
Released2025-03-122023-09-28
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.05—
Output $ / M tokens$0.15—
Results tracked248

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 3 12B: 31.7 (#280), Qwen-7B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 12BQwen-7B
SciCode17.4%—
LMArena Coding1281—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 3 12B: 25.5 (#108), Qwen-7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 12BQwen-7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard30.4%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Gemma 3 12B: 15.7 (#313), Qwen-7B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 12BQwen-7B
Epoch Capabilities Index123.5106.83
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles0%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1309—
DTBench48.8%—
LMCA4.5%—
BIG-Bench Hard—45%
LAMBADA—67.9%
PIQA—77.9%

Math Not comparable

Gemma 3 12B: 22.3 (#279), Qwen-7B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 12BQwen-7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.7%—
LMArena Math1307—
GSM8K—51.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemma 3 12B: 26.5 (#257), Qwen-7B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 12BQwen-7B
GPQA Diamond39.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate4.4%—
LMArena Expert1248—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—75.3%
BoolQ—76.4%
MMLU—45%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 3 12B: —, Qwen-7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 12BQwen-7B
MindCube46.7%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 3 12B: 45.7 (#165), Qwen-7B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 12BQwen-7B
LMArena Non-English1318—
LMArena German1370—
LMArena Russian1335—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 3 12B: 68.6 (#186), Qwen-7B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 12BQwen-7B
LMArena Instruction Following1299—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 3 12B: 40.0 (#162), Qwen-7B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 12BQwen-7B
LMArena Longer Query1317—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 3 12B: 47.5 (#209), Qwen-7B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 12BQwen-7B
LMArena Text1334—
LMArena Creative Writing1331—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1126—
LMArena Multi-Turn1334—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 12B better than Qwen-7B?

Gemma 3 12B has enough public results to be ranked (#262); Qwen-7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 12B and Qwen-7B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemma 3 12B has 24 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-7B has 8.

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