Model comparison
Gemma 7B vs Qwen3.5 35B-A3B
Qwen3.5 35B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 35B-A3B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads 57.9 to 27.1.
Side by side
| Gemma 7B | Qwen3.5 35B-A3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | |
| Noometry Index | 30.0 | 42.0 |
| Released | 2024-02-21 | 2026-02-01 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Results tracked | 27 | 28 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads
Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 33.8 (#251)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3.5 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1048 | 1410 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1254 |
| SciCode | — | 29.3% |
| HumanEval+ | 28.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 43.4% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads
Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 24.6 (#161)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3.5 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1042 | 1400 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.99 | 142.52 |
| CritPt | — | 0.6% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 10% |
| DTBench | — | 80% |
| LMCA | — | 29.5% |
| Adversarial NLI | 48.7% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 55.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 82.2% | — |
| PIQA | 81.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 79% | — |
Math Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads
Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 39.9 (#97)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3.5 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1066 | 1404 |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 56% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 70% |
| GSM8K | 46.4% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads
Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 47.8 (#79)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3.5 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1001 | 1408 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 83.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 10.5% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.2% | — |
| MMLU | 66.1% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 78.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 72.3% | — |
Multilingual Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads
Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 50.0 (#127)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3.5 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 999 | 1378 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1035 | 1457 |
| LMArena French | 1025 | 1412 |
| LMArena Russian | 993 | 1376 |
| LMArena German | — | 1367 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1325 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1356 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1392 |
Instruction Following Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads
Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 72.8 (#128)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3.5 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1017 | 1379 |
Long Context Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads
Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 42.4 (#127)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3.5 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1022 | 1389 |
Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads
Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 57.9 (#124)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3.5 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1056 | 1395 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1024 | 1346 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 963 | 1390 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 7B better than Qwen3.5 35B-A3B?
Qwen3.5 35B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemma 7B or Qwen3.5 35B-A3B better for coding?
Qwen3.5 35B-A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and Qwen3.5 35B-A3B share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 35B-A3B has 28.