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Model comparison

Gemma 4 31B IT vs Qwen3.5 Max Preview

Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 43.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 4 31B IT Google

43.5

Rank #90 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 Max Preview Alibaba (Qwen)

45.3

Rank #71 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 4 31B IT scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.5 Max Preview in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads 66.0 to 60.5.
  • Gemma 4 31B IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 4 31B ITQwen3.5 Max Preview
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index43.545.3
Released2026-04-02—
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window262K—
Max output33K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.09—
Output $ / M tokens$0.34—
Results tracked3517

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 42.3 (#108), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 44.0 (#77)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Coding14591487
LMArena WebDev1366—
SciCode43.4%—
WeirdML52.3%—
ALE-Bench925.5—

Reasoning Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 27.2 (#122), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 30.8 (#84)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Hard Prompts14481483
Kagi LLM Benchmark63.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)70.6%—
CritPt1.4%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
Thematic Generalization53%—
DTBench82.7%—
LMCA39.3%—
Surface Evolver Bench30.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index142.74—

Math Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 43.2 (#81), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 40.1 (#94)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Math14651474
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.3%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 37.9 (#151), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 41.8 (#107)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Expert14651489
GPQA Diamond75.8%—
SimpleQA Verified10.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

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

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Vision1277—
LMArena Document1425—

Multilingual Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 53.8 (#57), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 56.2 (#22)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Non-English14311465
LMArena Chinese14761534
LMArena French14351484
LMArena Russian14601471
LMArena Spanish14441470
LMArena German—1487
LMArena Japanese—1495
LMArena Korean—1438

Instruction Following Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 75.5 (#61), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 77.0 (#31)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Instruction Following14331467

Long Context Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 44.2 (#71), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 45.2 (#45)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Longer Query14461476

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 60.5 (#96), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 66.0 (#41)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Text14431470
LMArena Creative Writing14151464
LMArena Multi-Turn14521478
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1368—
EQ-Bench 41120—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 4 31B IT better than Qwen3.5 Max Preview?

Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 43.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 4 31B IT or Qwen3.5 Max Preview better for coding?

Qwen3.5 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 42.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 4 31B IT and Qwen3.5 Max Preview share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 4 31B IT has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Max Preview has 17.

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