Model comparison
Gemma 7B vs Qwen Plus
Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.1 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen Plus in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen Plus leads 52.2 to 27.1.
- Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemma 7B | Qwen Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | |
| Noometry Index | 30.0 | 37.1 |
| Released | 2024-02-21 | 2024-01-25 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 27 | 20 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen Plus leads
Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294), Qwen Plus: 38.9 (#167)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1048 | 1328 |
| HumanEval+ | 28.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 43.4% | — |
Reasoning Qwen Plus leads
Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249), Qwen Plus: 28.4 (#107)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1042 | 1317 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 63.3% |
| DTBench | — | 81.1% |
| LMCA | — | 24% |
| Adversarial NLI | 48.7% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 55.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.99 | — |
| HellaSwag | 82.2% | — |
| PIQA | 81.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 79% | — |
Math Gemma 7B leads
Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228), Qwen Plus: 23.3 (#271)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1066 | 1326 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 17.8% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 65.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |
| GSM8K | 46.4% | — |
Knowledge Too close to call
Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252), Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#251)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1001 | 1328 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 48.1% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.2% | — |
| MMLU | 66.1% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 78.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 72.3% | — |
Multilingual Qwen Plus leads
Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287), Qwen Plus: 45.1 (#175)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 999 | 1310 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1035 | 1347 |
| LMArena Russian | 993 | 1323 |
| LMArena French | 1025 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1251 |
Instruction Following Qwen Plus leads
Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295), Qwen Plus: 68.8 (#181)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1017 | 1303 |
Long Context Qwen Plus leads
Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282), Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#158)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1022 | 1324 |
Writing & Preference Qwen Plus leads
Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302), Qwen Plus: 52.2 (#176)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1056 | 1326 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1024 | 1293 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 963 | 1336 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 7B better than Qwen Plus?
Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.1 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemma 7B or Qwen Plus better for coding?
Qwen Plus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.9 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and Qwen Plus share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Plus has 20.