Noometry

Model comparison

Gemma 3 12B vs Qwen3-4B

Gemma 3 12B and Qwen3-4B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.8 vs 31.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 12B Google

31.8

Rank #255 Confirmed

Qwen3-4B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.5

Rank #261 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 12B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-4B in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3-4B leads 28.5 to 21.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 16.7% for Gemma 3 12B and 52.2% for Qwen3-4B.

Side by side

Gemma 3 12BQwen3-4B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index31.831.5
Released2025-03-122025-04-29
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.05—
Output $ / M tokens$0.15—
Results tracked246

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 3 12B: 31.2 (#276), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BQwen3-4B
SciCode17.4%—
LMArena Coding1281—

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3-4B leads

Gemma 3 12B: 25.3 (#101), Qwen3-4B: 27.3 (#94)

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BQwen3-4B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard30.4%35.7%

Reasoning Qwen3-4B leads

Gemma 3 12B: 15.2 (#307), Qwen3-4B: 18.5 (#264)

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BQwen3-4B
Chess Puzzles0%4%
CritPt0%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1309—
DTBench48.8%—
LMCA4.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index123.49—

Math Qwen3-4B leads

Gemma 3 12B: 21.0 (#273), Qwen3-4B: 28.5 (#228)

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BQwen3-4B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.7%52.2%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—38.5%
LMArena Math1307—

Knowledge Qwen3-4B leads

Gemma 3 12B: 26.5 (#250), Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#198)

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BQwen3-4B
GPQA Diamond39.5%52.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate4.4%5.7%
LMArena Expert1248—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 3 12B: —, Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BQwen3-4B
MindCube46.7%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 3 12B: 45.9 (#160), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BQwen3-4B
LMArena Non-English1318—
LMArena German1370—
LMArena Russian1335—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 3 12B: 68.8 (#179), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BQwen3-4B
LMArena Instruction Following1299—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 3 12B: 40.0 (#157), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BQwen3-4B
LMArena Longer Query1317—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 3 12B: 47.7 (#205), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BQwen3-4B
LMArena Text1334—
LMArena Creative Writing1331—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1126—
LMArena Multi-Turn1334—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 12B better than Qwen3-4B?

Gemma 3 12B and Qwen3-4B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.8 vs 31.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 12B and Qwen3-4B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 12B has 24 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.

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