Model comparison

Gemma 7B vs QwQ-32B

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 7B Google

30.0

Rank #299 Confirmed

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.8

Rank #159 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 0 categories and QwQ-32B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where QwQ-32B leads 50.6 to 27.1.

Side by side

Gemma 7B and QwQ-32B specifications
Gemma 7BQwQ-32B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.039.8
Released2024-02-212024-11-28
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked2736

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Category by category

Coding QwQ-32B leads

Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BQwQ-32B
LMArena Coding10481333
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
BigCodeBench Instruct—44.6%
LiveBench Coding—72.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.4%
HumanEval+28.7%—
MBPP+43.4%—

Reasoning QwQ-32B leads

Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BQwQ-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts10421325
Epoch Capabilities Index111.99137.6
Chess Puzzles—5%
LiveBench Reasoning—83.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis—65%
Adversarial NLI48.7%—
BIG-Bench Hard55.1%—
ForecastBench—58.3
HellaSwag82.2%—
LiveBench—72%
PIQA81.2%—
WinoGrande79%—

Math QwQ-32B leads

Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BQwQ-32B
LMArena Math10661359
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—59.2%
LiveBench Math—77.8%
GSM8K46.4%—

Knowledge QwQ-32B leads

Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BQwQ-32B
LMArena Expert10011324
GPQA Diamond—65.3%
Confabulations—15.6%
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.3%—
BoolQ83.2%—
MMLU66.1%—
OpenBookQA78.6%—
TriviaQA72.3%—

Multilingual QwQ-32B leads

Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BQwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English9991305
LMArena Chinese10351378
LMArena French10251336
LMArena Russian9931297
LMArena German—1313
LMArena Japanese—1262
LMArena Korean—1279
LMArena Spanish—1354

Instruction Following QwQ-32B leads

Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BQwQ-32B
LMArena Instruction Following10171297
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.8%

Long Context QwQ-32B leads

Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BQwQ-32B
LMArena Longer Query10221308
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference QwQ-32B leads

Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BQwQ-32B
LMArena Text10561329
LMArena Creative Writing10241288
LMArena Multi-Turn9631314
Short-Story Creative Writing—80.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1257
LiveBench Language—51.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 7B better than QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 7B or QwQ-32B better for coding?

QwQ-32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.4 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and QwQ-32B share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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