Model comparison

Gemma 7B vs Qwen3-1.7B

Gemma 7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 26.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 7B Google

30.0

Rank #299 Confirmed

Qwen3-1.7B Alibaba (Qwen)

26.6

Rank #336 Reported

Summary

  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 7B leads 31.2 to 16.3.

Side by side

Gemma 7B and Qwen3-1.7B specifications
Gemma 7BQwen3-1.7B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.026.6
Released2024-02-212025-04-29
WeightsOpenOpen
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Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked274

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Coding1048—
HumanEval+28.7%—
MBPP+43.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 7B: —, Qwen3-1.7B: 24.7 (#115)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BQwen3-1.7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.4%

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249), Qwen3-1.7B: 19.2 (#267)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BQwen3-1.7B
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1042—
Adversarial NLI48.7%—
BIG-Bench Hard55.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index111.99—
HellaSwag82.2%—
PIQA81.2%—
WinoGrande79%—

Math Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228), Qwen3-1.7B: 16.3 (#294)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BQwen3-1.7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—8.1%
LMArena Math1066—
GSM8K46.4%—

Knowledge Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252), Qwen3-1.7B: 19.6 (#278)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BQwen3-1.7B
GPQA Diamond—38%
LMArena Expert1001—
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.3%—
BoolQ83.2%—
MMLU66.1%—
OpenBookQA78.6%—
TriviaQA72.3%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Non-English999—
LMArena Chinese1035—
LMArena French1025—
LMArena Russian993—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Instruction Following1017—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Longer Query1022—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Text1056—
LMArena Creative Writing1024—
LMArena Multi-Turn963—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 7B better than Qwen3-1.7B?

Gemma 7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 26.6 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and Qwen3-1.7B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-1.7B has 4.

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