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Model comparison

Gemma 4 31B IT vs Qwen3.5-9B

Gemma 4 31B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 33.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 4 31B IT Google

43.5

Rank #90 Confirmed

Qwen3.5-9B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.8

Rank #236 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 4 31B IT scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3.5-9B in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 4 31B IT leads 43.2 to 34.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 43.4% for Gemma 4 31B IT and 27.5% for Qwen3.5-9B.
  • Qwen3.5-9B is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $0.09 / $0.34 for Gemma 4 31B IT.

Side by side

Gemma 4 31B ITQwen3.5-9B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index43.533.8
Released2026-04-022026-02-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K262K
Max output33K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.09$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$0.34$0.15
Results tracked3510

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 42.3 (#108), Qwen3.5-9B: 35.9 (#217)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3.5-9B
SciCode43.4%27.5%
LMArena WebDev1366—
WeirdML52.3%—
LMArena Coding1459—
ALE-Bench925.5—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 14.5 (#151)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3.5-9B
Terminal-Bench—9.2%

Reasoning Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 27.2 (#122), Qwen3.5-9B: 23.1 (#182)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3.5-9B
CritPt1.4%0.3%
Chess Puzzles5%12%
DTBench82.7%71.2%
LMCA39.3%24.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index142.74139.46
Kagi LLM Benchmark63.5%—
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), Qwen3.5-9B: 34.8 (#192)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3.5-9B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.3%61.7%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—48.5%
LMArena Math1465—

Knowledge Qwen3.5-9B leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 37.9 (#151), Qwen3.5-9B: 46.0 (#84)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3.5-9B
GPQA Diamond75.8%79%
SimpleQA Verified10.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.4%—
LMArena Expert1465—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 41.6 (#34), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Vision1277—
LMArena Document1425—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 53.8 (#57), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Non-English1431—
LMArena Chinese1476—
LMArena French1435—
LMArena Russian1460—
LMArena Spanish1444—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 75.5 (#61), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Instruction Following1433—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 44.2 (#71), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Longer Query1446—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 60.5 (#96), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3.5-9B
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 Qwen3.5-9B?

Gemma 4 31B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 33.8 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemma 4 31B IT or Qwen3.5-9B?

Qwen3.5-9B is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Gemma 4 31B IT lists at $0.09 and $0.34.

Is Gemma 4 31B IT or Qwen3.5-9B better for coding?

Gemma 4 31B IT scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.3 versus 35.9 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 262K tokens.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 4 31B IT and Qwen3.5-9B share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 4 31B IT has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-9B has 10.

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