Model comparison

Gemma 3 27B vs Qwen1.5-110B

Qwen1.5-110B is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.2 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 27B Google

30.8

Rank #284 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-110B Alibaba (Qwen)

34.2

Rank #234 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 27B scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen1.5-110B in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemma 3 27B leads 52.5 to 38.0.

Side by side

Gemma 3 27B and Qwen1.5-110B specifications
Gemma 3 27BQwen1.5-110B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.834.2
Released2025-03-112024-04-25
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.08—
Output $ / M tokens$0.16—
Results tracked4320

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Category by category

Coding Qwen1.5-110B leads

Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.0 (#264)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Coding13221184
Aider Polyglot4.9%—
SciCode21.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—35%
LiveBench Coding39.9%—
BigCodeBench Complete—44.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110), Qwen1.5-110B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BQwen1.5-110B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard29.5%—

Reasoning Qwen1.5-110B leads

Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301), Qwen1.5-110B: 22.7 (#189)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Hard Prompts13401168
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.4%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles0%—
LiveBench Reasoning43.8%—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis51.5%—
LMCA12.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index130.04—
ForecastBench—57.7
LiveBench50%—

Math Qwen1.5-110B leads

Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.7 (#201)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Math13121185
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202522.5%—
LiveBench Math55.4%—
MATH Level 574%—

Knowledge Qwen1.5-110B leads

Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261), Qwen1.5-110B: 31.2 (#219)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Expert13041144
GPQA Diamond47.7%—
Confabulations40.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100), Qwen1.5-110B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Vision1164—
GeoBench52%—

Multilingual Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.6 (#250)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Non-English13341142
LMArena Chinese13461206
LMArena French13681151
LMArena German13621123
LMArena Japanese12871074
LMArena Korean13081044
LMArena Russian13491118
LMArena Spanish13491142

Instruction Following Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemma 3 27B: 70.6 (#160), Qwen1.5-110B: 60.3 (#252)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Instruction Following13211158
LiveBench Instruction Following74.9%—

Long Context Qwen1.5-110B leads

Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293), Qwen1.5-110B: 35.1 (#242)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Longer Query13331157
Fiction.LiveBench33.3%—

Writing & Preference Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168), Qwen1.5-110B: 38.0 (#255)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Text13581175
LMArena Creative Writing13461148
LMArena Multi-Turn13451160
Short-Story Creative Writing79.9%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1266—
LiveBench Language34.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 27B better than Qwen1.5-110B?

Qwen1.5-110B is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.2 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 3 27B or Qwen1.5-110B better for coding?

Qwen1.5-110B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.0 versus 22.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 27B and Qwen1.5-110B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 27B has 43 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-110B has 20.

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