Model comparison

Gemma 7B vs Qwen3 235B-A22B

Qwen3 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 7B Google

30.0

Rank #299 Confirmed

Qwen3 235B-A22B Alibaba (Qwen)

43.5

Rank #91 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 235B-A22B in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3 235B-A22B leads 59.6 to 27.1.

Side by side

Gemma 7B and Qwen3 235B-A22B specifications
Gemma 7BQwen3 235B-A22B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.043.5
Released2024-02-212025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked2749

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 44.3 (#75)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Coding10481445
Aider Polyglot—59.6%
SciCode—42.4%
WeirdML—41%
HumanEval+28.7%—
MBPP+43.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 7B: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 33.9 (#51)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BQwen3 235B-A22B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—52.1%
Vending-Bench 2—-11.34

Reasoning Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 15.7 (#311)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Hard Prompts10421433
Epoch Capabilities Index111.99143.85
ARC-AGI-2—1.3%
SimpleBench—31%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—69.4%
ARC-AGI-1—11%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—12%
Mystery Game Puzzles—9%
DTBench—80.3%
LMCA—29.3%
Adversarial NLI48.7%—
BIG-Bench Hard55.1%—
ForecastBench—59.7
HellaSwag82.2%—
PIQA81.2%—
WinoGrande79%—

Math Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 50.4 (#57)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Math10661432
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—86.7%
Omni-MATH—71.8%
MATH Level 5—68.9%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—8.5%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%
GSM8K46.4%—

Knowledge Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 49.6 (#73)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Expert10011463
GPQA Diamond—80.1%
SimpleQA Verified—40.4%
MMLU-Pro—84.4%
Confabulations—15.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%
GPQA (HELM)—72.7%
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.3%—
BoolQ83.2%—
MMLU66.1%—
OpenBookQA78.6%—
TriviaQA72.3%—

Multilingual Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 52.3 (#89)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Non-English9991409
LMArena Chinese10351481
LMArena French10251445
LMArena Russian9931411
LMArena German—1433
LMArena Japanese—1399
LMArena Korean—1391
LMArena Spanish—1430

Instruction Following Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 72.6 (#136)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Instruction Following10171408
IFEval—83.5%

Long Context Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 46.1 (#26)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Longer Query10221426
Fiction.LiveBench—75%

Writing & Preference Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 59.6 (#108)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Text10561419
LMArena Creative Writing10241384
LMArena Multi-Turn9631432
Short-Story Creative Writing—83%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1366
WildBench—86.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 7B better than Qwen3 235B-A22B?

Qwen3 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 7B or Qwen3 235B-A22B better for coding?

Qwen3 235B-A22B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.3 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and Qwen3 235B-A22B share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 235B-A22B has 49.

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