Model comparison
Gemma 7B vs Qwen3.6 27B
Qwen3.6 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.2 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 Qwen3.6 27B in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.6 27B leads 52.4 to 27.3.
Side by side
| Gemma 7B | Qwen3.6 27B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | |
| Noometry Index | 30.0 | 42.2 |
| Released | 2024-02-21 | 2026-04-22 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.60 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $3.60 |
| Results tracked | 27 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3.6 27B leads
Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294), Qwen3.6 27B: 39.1 (#163)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3.6 27B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 37.3% |
| LMArena Coding | 1048 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 28.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 43.4% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3.6 27B leads
Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249), Qwen3.6 27B: 25.0 (#153)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3.6 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.99 | 146.5 |
| CritPt | — | 0.9% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 22% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1042 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 7% |
| DTBench | — | 78.1% |
| LMCA | — | 34.5% |
| Adversarial NLI | 48.7% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 55.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 82.2% | — |
| PIQA | 81.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 79% | — |
Math Qwen3.6 27B leads
Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228), Qwen3.6 27B: 48.5 (#62)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3.6 27B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 35.1% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 91.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1066 | — |
| GSM8K | 46.4% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3.6 27B leads
Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252), Qwen3.6 27B: 52.4 (#63)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3.6 27B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 85.9% |
| 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), Qwen3.6 27B: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3.6 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 999 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1035 | — |
| LMArena French | 1025 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 993 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295), Qwen3.6 27B: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3.6 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1017 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282), Qwen3.6 27B: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3.6 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1022 | — |
Writing & Preference Qwen3.6 27B leads
Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302), Qwen3.6 27B: 50.3 (#181)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3.6 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1056 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1024 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1026 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 963 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 7B better than Qwen3.6 27B?
Qwen3.6 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.2 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemma 7B or Qwen3.6 27B better for coding?
Qwen3.6 27B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and Qwen3.6 27B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 27B has 11.