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Model comparison

Gemma 3 1B vs Qwen3-30B-A3B

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 20.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 1B Google

20.7

Rank #348 Reported

Qwen3-30B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

38.5

Rank #174 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 1B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-30B-A3B in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3-30B-A3B leads 41.7 to 7.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 1.1% for Gemma 3 1B and 70.3% for Qwen3-30B-A3B.

Side by side

Gemma 3 1BQwen3-30B-A3B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index20.738.5
Released2025-03-122025-04-28
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—41K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.12
Output $ / M tokens—$0.50
Results tracked432

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.0 (#188)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BQwen3-30B-A3B
SciCode—33.3%
WeirdML—29.8%
LMArena Coding—1416

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Gemma 3 1B: 13.5 (#144), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.5 (#75)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BQwen3-30B-A3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard7.2%41.4%

Reasoning Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Gemma 3 1B: 18.5 (#260), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 21.6 (#193)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BQwen3-30B-A3B
Chess Puzzles0%8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
CritPt—0.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1398
DTBench—69.3%
LMCA—22.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—139.63

Math Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Gemma 3 1B: 9.6 (#310), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 36.0 (#133)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BQwen3-30B-A3B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.1%70.3%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—47.8%
LMArena Math—1394

Knowledge Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Gemma 3 1B: 7.1 (#309), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.7 (#96)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BQwen3-30B-A3B
GPQA Diamond19.9%70.1%
Confabulations—12.3%
LMArena Expert—1395

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.8 (#126)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Non-English—1372
LMArena Chinese—1434
LMArena French—1419
LMArena German—1379
LMArena Japanese—1338
LMArena Korean—1333
LMArena Russian—1369
LMArena Spanish—1403

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.2 (#137)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following—1364

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#278)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BQwen3-30B-A3B
Fiction.LiveBench—40.6%
LMArena Longer Query—1379

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.9 (#138)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Text—1384
LMArena Creative Writing—1318
Short-Story Creative Writing—75.3%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1378

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 1B better than Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 20.7 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 1B and Qwen3-30B-A3B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 1B has 4 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32.

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