Noometry

Model comparison

Gemma 4 31B IT vs Qwen3 14B

Gemma 4 31B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 35.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 4 31B IT Google

43.5

Rank #90 Confirmed

Qwen3 14B Alibaba (Qwen)

35.5

Rank #225 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 4 31B IT scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3 14B in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemma 4 31B IT leads 27.2 to 18.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LMCA: 39.3% for Gemma 4 31B IT and 18.2% for Qwen3 14B.
  • Gemma 4 31B IT is cheaper at $0.09 / $0.34 per million input/output tokens, against $0.35 / $1.40 for Qwen3 14B.
  • Gemma 4 31B IT accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

Gemma 4 31B ITQwen3 14B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index43.535.5
Released2026-04-022025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K131K
Max output33K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.09$0.35
Output $ / M tokens$0.34$1.40
Results tracked3512

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 42.3 (#108), Qwen3 14B: 37.3 (#195)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3 14B
SciCode43.4%31.6%
LMArena WebDev1366—
WeirdML52.3%—
LMArena Coding1459—
ALE-Bench925.5—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: —, Qwen3 14B: 29.6 (#83)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3 14B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41%

Reasoning Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 27.2 (#122), Qwen3 14B: 18.5 (#280)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3 14B
Kagi LLM Benchmark63.5%49.1%
CritPt1.4%0%
Chess Puzzles5%4%
DTBench82.7%64%
LMCA39.3%18.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index142.74138.23
NYT Connections (extended)70.6%—
Thematic Generalization53%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1448—
Surface Evolver Bench30.6%—

Math Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 43.2 (#81), Qwen3 14B: 38.6 (#133)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3 14B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.3%66.4%
LMArena Math1465—

Knowledge Qwen3 14B leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 37.9 (#151), Qwen3 14B: 39.3 (#134)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3 14B
GPQA Diamond75.8%63.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.4%5.4%
SimpleQA Verified10.4%—
LMArena Expert1465—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 41.6 (#34), Qwen3 14B: —

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3 14B
LMArena Vision1277—
LMArena Document1425—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 53.8 (#57), Qwen3 14B: —

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3 14B
LMArena Non-English1431—
LMArena Chinese1476—
LMArena French1435—
LMArena Russian1460—
LMArena Spanish1444—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 75.5 (#61), Qwen3 14B: —

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1433—

Long Context Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 44.2 (#71), Qwen3 14B: 38.1 (#204)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3 14B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.5%
LMArena Longer Query1446—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 60.5 (#96), Qwen3 14B: —

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3 14B
LMArena Text1443—
LMArena Creative Writing1415—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1368—
EQ-Bench 41120—
LMArena Multi-Turn1452—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 4 31B IT better than Qwen3 14B?

Gemma 4 31B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 35.5 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemma 4 31B IT or Qwen3 14B?

Gemma 4 31B IT is cheaper. It lists at $0.09 per million input tokens and $0.34 per million output tokens; Qwen3 14B lists at $0.35 and $1.40.

Is Gemma 4 31B IT or Qwen3 14B better for coding?

Gemma 4 31B IT scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.3 versus 37.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemma 4 31B IT does, with 262K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 4 31B IT and Qwen3 14B share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 4 31B IT has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.

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