Model comparison
Gemma 7B vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Gemma 7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 3 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads 48.8 to 27.1.
Side by side
| Gemma 7B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | |
| Noometry Index | 30.0 | 29.0 |
| Released | 2024-02-21 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.17 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 27 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 36.5 (#208)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1048 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.1% |
| HumanEval+ | 28.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 43.4% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemma 7B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.8 (#124)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 7.8% |
Reasoning Gemma 7B leads
Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.8 (#322)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.99 | 118.51 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1042 | — |
| DTBench | — | 47.7% |
| LMCA | — | 6.4% |
| Adversarial NLI | 48.7% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 55.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 82.2% | — |
| PIQA | 81.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 79% | — |
Math Gemma 7B leads
Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 12.6 (#306)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 29.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1066 | — |
| GSM8K | 46.4% | — |
Knowledge Gemma 7B leads
Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#286)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 66.1% | 72.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 35.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 53.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 34.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1001 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.2% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 78.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 72.3% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 999 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1035 | — |
| LMArena French | 1025 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 993 | — |
Instruction Following Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.2 (#231)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 74.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1017 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1022 | — |
Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#195)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1056 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1024 | — |
| WildBench | — | 73.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 963 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 7B better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?
Gemma 7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemma 7B or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.5 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.