Model comparison

Gemma 3 27B vs Qwen3.5 Plus

Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index. Gemma 3 27B costs 9.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3.5 Plus's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 7 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 27B

Google

30.5

Rank #277 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 Plus

Alibaba (Qwen)

42.3

Rank #103 Confirmed

Summary

They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 27B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 Plus in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.5 Plus leads 47.9 to 24.4.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 22.5% for Gemma 3 27B and 86.7% for Qwen3.5 Plus.
Gemma 3 27B is cheaper at $0.08 / $0.16 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $2.40 for Qwen3.5 Plus.
Qwen3.5 Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.
Gemma 3 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 3 27B and Qwen3.5 Plus specifications
	Gemma 3 27B	Qwen3.5 Plus
Provider	Google	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	30.5	42.3
Released	2025-03-11	2026-02-16
Weights	Open	Proprietary
Context window	131K	1M
Max output	8K	66K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.08	$0.40
Output $ / M tokens	$0.16	$2.40
Results tracked	43	15

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 22.1 (#329), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 27B	Qwen3.5 Plus
Aider Polyglot	4.9%	—
SciCode	21.2%	—
LiveBench Coding	39.9%	—
LMArena Coding	1322	—
ALE-Bench	—	621.92

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 24.9 (#105), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 27B	Qwen3.5 Plus
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	29.5%	—
Vending-Bench 2	—	0.54

Reasoning Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Gemma 3 27B: 16.3 (#297), Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.0 (#67)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 27B	Qwen3.5 Plus
Chess Puzzles	0%	22%
DTBench	52.5%	80.5%
LMCA	12.3%	36.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index	130.04	146.79
Kagi LLM Benchmark	40.4%	—
CritPt	0%	—
LiveBench Reasoning	43.8%	—
LMArena Hard Prompts	1340	—
Mystery Game Puzzles	—	17%
LiveBench Data Analysis	51.5%	—
LiveBench	50%	—

Math Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Gemma 3 27B: 24.4 (#261), Qwen3.5 Plus: 47.9 (#55)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 27B	Qwen3.5 Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	22.5%	86.7%
LiveBench Math	55.4%	—
LMArena Math	1312	—
MATH Level 5	74%	—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)	—	21%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)	—	2.1%

Knowledge Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Gemma 3 27B: 25.4 (#256), Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#78)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 27B	Qwen3.5 Plus
GPQA Diamond	47.7%	84.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	7.4%	10.7%
SimpleQA Verified	—	25.4%
Confabulations	40.3%	—
LMArena Expert	1303	—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 32.0 (#94), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 27B	Qwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Vision	1165	—
GeoBench	52%	—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 47.0 (#150), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 27B	Qwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Non-English	1334	—
LMArena Chinese	1347	—
LMArena French	1368	—
LMArena German	1362	—
LMArena Japanese	1287	—
LMArena Korean	1308	—
LMArena Russian	1349	—
LMArena Spanish	1348	—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 70.8 (#155), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 27B	Qwen3.5 Plus
LiveBench Instruction Following	74.9%	—
LMArena Instruction Following	1321	—

Long Context Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#288), Qwen3.5 Plus: 42.9 (#109)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 27B	Qwen3.5 Plus
Fiction.LiveBench	33.3%	—
CL-bench	—	19.8%
CL-bench Life	—	12.4%
LMArena Longer Query	1333	—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 52.7 (#161), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 27B	Qwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Text	1358	—
LMArena Creative Writing	1346	—
Short-Story Creative Writing	79.9%	—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	1266	—
LMArena Multi-Turn	1344	—
LiveBench Language	34.6%	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 27B better than Qwen3.5 Plus?

Which is cheaper, Gemma 3 27B or Qwen3.5 Plus?

Gemma 3 27B is cheaper. It lists at $0.08 per million input tokens and $0.16 per million output tokens; Qwen3.5 Plus lists at $0.40 and $2.40.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.5 Plus does, with 1M tokens against 131K.

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

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 27B has 43 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Plus has 15.