Model comparison

Gemma 3 1B vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 1B Google

21.1

Rank #353 Reported

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.4

Rank #245 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads 33.4 to 7.0.

Side by side

Gemma 3 1B and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B specifications
Gemma 3 1BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index21.133.4
Released2025-03-122024-09-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—33K
Max output—29K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.66
Output $ / M tokens—$1
Results tracked431

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—9%
Aider Polyglot—16.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct—49%
LiveBench Coding—56.9%
LMArena Coding—1276
BigCodeBench Complete—58%
HumanEval+—87.2%
MBPP+—77%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: 13.7 (#152), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard7.2%—

Reasoning Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Gemma 3 1B: 19.2 (#264), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
Chess Puzzles0%—
LiveBench Reasoning—42.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1251
LiveBench Data Analysis—49.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—119.49
HellaSwag—83%
LiveBench—46.2%
WinoGrande—80.8%

Math Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Gemma 3 1B: 10.2 (#316), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.1%—
LiveBench Math—46.6%
LMArena Math—1251
GSM8K—93%

Knowledge Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Gemma 3 1B: 7.0 (#314), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
GPQA Diamond19.9%—
LMArena Expert—1221
ARC (AI2) Challenge—70.5%
MMLU—79.1%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Non-English—1205
LMArena Chinese—1222
LMArena Russian—1228

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.7%
LMArena Instruction Following—1223

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Longer Query—1251

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Text—1230
LMArena Creative Writing—1174
LMArena Multi-Turn—1222
LiveBench Language—23.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 1B better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 1B and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 1B has 4 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.

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