Noometry

Model comparison

Gemma 3 27B vs Qwen3.5 Max Preview

Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 27B Google

30.8

Rank #284 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 Max Preview Alibaba (Qwen)

45.3

Rank #71 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 27B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 Max Preview in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads 44.0 to 22.5.
  • Gemma 3 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 3 27BQwen3.5 Max Preview
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.845.3
Released2025-03-11—
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window131K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.08—
Output $ / M tokens$0.16—
Results tracked4317

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 44.0 (#77)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Coding13221487
Aider Polyglot4.9%—
SciCode21.2%—
LiveBench Coding39.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BQwen3.5 Max Preview
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard29.5%—

Reasoning Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 30.8 (#84)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Hard Prompts13401483
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.4%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles0%—
LiveBench Reasoning43.8%—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis51.5%—
LMCA12.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index130.04—
LiveBench50%—

Math Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 40.1 (#94)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Math13121474
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202522.5%—
LiveBench Math55.4%—
MATH Level 574%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 41.8 (#107)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Expert13041489
GPQA Diamond47.7%—
Confabulations40.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Vision1164—
GeoBench52%—

Multilingual Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 56.2 (#22)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Non-English13341465
LMArena Chinese13461534
LMArena French13681484
LMArena German13621487
LMArena Japanese12871495
LMArena Korean13081438
LMArena Russian13491471
LMArena Spanish13491470

Instruction Following Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Gemma 3 27B: 70.6 (#160), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 77.0 (#31)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Instruction Following13211467
LiveBench Instruction Following74.9%—

Long Context Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 45.2 (#45)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Longer Query13331476
Fiction.LiveBench33.3%—

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 66.0 (#41)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Text13581470
LMArena Creative Writing13461464
LMArena Multi-Turn13451478
Short-Story Creative Writing79.9%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1266—
LiveBench Language34.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 27B better than Qwen3.5 Max Preview?

Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 3 27B or Qwen3.5 Max Preview better for coding?

Qwen3.5 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 22.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 27B and Qwen3.5 Max Preview share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 27B has 43 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Max Preview has 17.

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