Model comparison
Gemma 7B vs Qwen3.5 Plus
Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 Plus in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.5 Plus leads 46.0 to 27.3.
- Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemma 7B | Qwen3.5 Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | |
| Noometry Index | 30.0 | 42.9 |
| Released | 2024-02-21 | 2026-02-16 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2.40 |
| Results tracked | 27 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1048 | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 621.92 |
| HumanEval+ | 28.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 43.4% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemma 7B: —, Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 0.54 |
Reasoning Qwen3.5 Plus leads
Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249), Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.8 (#74)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.99 | 146.78 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 22% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1042 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 17% |
| DTBench | — | 80.5% |
| LMCA | — | 36.4% |
| Adversarial NLI | 48.7% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 55.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 82.2% | — |
| PIQA | 81.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 79% | — |
Math Qwen3.5 Plus leads
Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228), Qwen3.5 Plus: 49.6 (#61)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 86.7% |
| LMArena Math | 1066 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 21% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 2.1% |
| GSM8K | 46.4% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3.5 Plus leads
Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252), Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#83)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 84.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 25.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 10.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1001 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.2% | — |
| MMLU | 66.1% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 78.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 72.3% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 999 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1035 | — |
| LMArena French | 1025 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 993 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1017 | — |
Long Context Qwen3.5 Plus leads
Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282), Qwen3.5 Plus: 43.0 (#113)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| CL-bench | — | 19.8% |
| CL-bench Life | — | 12.4% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1022 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1056 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1024 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 963 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 7B better than Qwen3.5 Plus?
Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and Qwen3.5 Plus share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Plus has 15.