Noometry

Model comparison

Gemma 4 31B IT vs Qwen3 8B

Gemma 4 31B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.2 to 33.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 4 31B IT Google

43.2

Rank #85 Confirmed

Qwen3 8B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.3

Rank #237 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 4 31B IT scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen3 8B in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemma 4 31B IT leads 26.4 to 16.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LMCA: 39.3% for Gemma 4 31B IT and 8.8% for Qwen3 8B.
  • Gemma 4 31B IT is cheaper at $0.09 / $0.34 per million input/output tokens, against $0.18 / $0.70 for Qwen3 8B.
  • Gemma 4 31B IT accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

Gemma 4 31B ITQwen3 8B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index43.233.3
Released2026-04-022025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K131K
Max output33K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.09$0.18
Output $ / M tokens$0.34$0.70
Results tracked3511

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 41.9 (#98), Qwen3 8B: 33.4 (#245)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3 8B
SciCode43.4%22.6%
LMArena WebDev1364—
WeirdML52.3%—
LMArena Coding1459—
ALE-Bench925.5—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: —, Qwen3 8B: 29.9 (#71)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3 8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—42.6%

Reasoning Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 26.4 (#119), Qwen3 8B: 16.1 (#299)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3 8B
CritPt1.4%0%
Chess Puzzles5%5%
DTBench82.7%59.7%
LMCA39.3%8.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index142.74136.17
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: 41.3 (#72), Qwen3 8B: 33.3 (#176)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3 8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.3%56.1%
LMArena Math1464—

Knowledge Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 37.9 (#141), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#164)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3 8B
GPQA Diamond75.8%56.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.4%4.8%
SimpleQA Verified10.4%—
LMArena Expert1465—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 41.0 (#32), Qwen3 8B: —

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3 8B
LMArena Vision1278—
LMArena Document1425—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 54.0 (#52), Qwen3 8B: —

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3 8B
LMArena Non-English1431—
LMArena Chinese1478—
LMArena French1436—
LMArena Russian1462—
LMArena Spanish1443—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 75.6 (#58), Qwen3 8B: —

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3 8B
LMArena Instruction Following1433—

Long Context Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 44.2 (#67), Qwen3 8B: 37.8 (#205)

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3 8B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.1%
LMArena Longer Query1446—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: 60.7 (#92), Qwen3 8B: —

BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITQwen3 8B
LMArena Text1443—
LMArena Creative Writing1416—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1368—
EQ-Bench 41120—
LMArena Multi-Turn1452—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 4 31B IT better than Qwen3 8B?

Gemma 4 31B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.2 to 33.3 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemma 4 31B IT or Qwen3 8B?

Gemma 4 31B IT is cheaper. It lists at $0.09 per million input tokens and $0.34 per million output tokens; Qwen3 8B lists at $0.18 and $0.70.

Is Gemma 4 31B IT or Qwen3 8B better for coding?

Gemma 4 31B IT scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 33.4 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 8B share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 4 31B IT has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.

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