# Gemma 7B vs Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)

> Gemma 7B has enough public results to be ranked (#295); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-7b-vs-qwen2-5-coder
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 6

## Summary

- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 7B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | — |
| Rank | 295 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Gemma 7B: 29.9 (#290)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1048 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 28.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 43.4% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 7B: 19.0 (#247)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.74 | 112.93 |
| HellaSwag | 82.2% | 76.8% |
| WinoGrande | 79% | 72.9% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1042 | — |
| Adversarial NLI | 48.7% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 55.1% | — |
| PIQA | 81.2% | — |

## Math

- Gemma 7B: 28.7 (#225)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 46.4% | 86.7% |
| LMArena Math | 1066 | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 7B: 26.8 (#248)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.3% | 60.9% |
| MMLU | 66.1% | 68% |
| LMArena Expert | 1002 | — |
| BoolQ | 83.2% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 78.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 72.3% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 7B: 25.3 (#282)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 999 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1035 | — |
| LMArena French | 1024 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 993 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 7B: 51.7 (#290)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1017 | — |

## Long Context

- Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#277)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1022 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 7B: 27.2 (#297)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1056 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1024 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 963 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 7B better than Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)?

Gemma 7B has enough public results to be ranked (#295); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has 6.