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Model comparison

Gemma 3 4B vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Gemma 3 4B and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (27.9 vs 28.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 4B Google

27.9

Rank #320 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

28.6

Rank #314 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 4B scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads 48.8 to 42.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 23.2% for Gemma 3 4B and 35.5% for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.
  • Gemma 3 4B is cheaper at $0.04 / $0.08 per million input/output tokens, against $0.17 / $0.70 for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.

Side by side

Gemma 3 4BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index27.928.6
Released2025-03-122024-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K131K
Max output4K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.04$0.17
Output $ / M tokens$0.08$0.70
Results tracked2215

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemma 3 4B: 35.3 (#214), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 35.9 (#204)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1230—
BigCodeBench Complete—46.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads

Gemma 3 4B: 20.7 (#134), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.5 (#117)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard19.6%—
BALROG—7.8%

Reasoning Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads

Gemma 3 4B: 12.7 (#330), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.3 (#317)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
Chess Puzzles0%0%
DTBench50.9%47.7%
LMCA2.8%6.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index116.02118.44
Kagi LLM Benchmark25.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1253—

Math Gemma 3 4B leads

Gemma 3 4B: 15.8 (#286), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 11.8 (#300)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20257.5%2.5%
Omni-MATH—29.4%
LMArena Math1239—

Knowledge Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads

Gemma 3 4B: 11.8 (#294), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#281)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
GPQA Diamond23.2%35.5%
MMLU-Pro—53.9%
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.4%—
GPQA (HELM)—34.1%
LMArena Expert1223—
MMLU—72.9%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 3 4B: 42.7 (#189), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1273—
LMArena German1281—
LMArena Russian1294—

Instruction Following Gemma 3 4B leads

Gemma 3 4B: 65.4 (#219), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.4 (#226)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
IFEval—74.1%
LMArena Instruction Following1239—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 3 4B: 38.6 (#189), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1274—

Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads

Gemma 3 4B: 42.2 (#234), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#194)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Text1291—
LMArena Creative Writing1270—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1068—
WildBench—73.1%
LMArena Multi-Turn1255—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 4B better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Gemma 3 4B and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (27.9 vs 28.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Gemma 3 4B or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Gemma 3 4B is cheaper. It lists at $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.08 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5 7B Instruct lists at $0.17 and $0.70.

Is Gemma 3 4B or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (35.3 vs 35.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 131K tokens.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 4B and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 4B has 22 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.

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