Model comparison
Gemma 3 4B vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Gemma 3 4B and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.1 vs 29.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 4B scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads 48.8 to 42.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 23.2% for Gemma 3 4B and 35.5% for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.
- Gemma 3 4B is cheaper at $0.04 / $0.08 per million input/output tokens, against $0.17 / $0.70 for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.
Side by side
| Gemma 3 4B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | |
| Noometry Index | 28.1 | 29.0 |
| Released | 2025-03-12 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | 131K |
| Max output | 4K | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.04 | $0.17 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.08 | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 22 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Gemma 3 4B: 35.9 (#215), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 36.5 (#208)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1230 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.1% |
Agentic & Tool Use Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Gemma 3 4B: 20.9 (#142), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.8 (#124)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 19.6% | — |
| BALROG | — | 7.8% |
Reasoning Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Gemma 3 4B: 13.2 (#335), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.8 (#322)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | 0% |
| DTBench | 50.9% | 47.7% |
| LMCA | 2.8% | 6.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 116.02 | 118.51 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 25.2% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1253 | — |
Math Gemma 3 4B leads
Gemma 3 4B: 16.8 (#292), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 12.6 (#306)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 7.5% | 2.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 29.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1239 | — |
Knowledge Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Gemma 3 4B: 11.8 (#299), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#286)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 23.2% | 35.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 53.9% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.4% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 34.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | — |
| MMLU | — | 72.9% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemma 3 4B: 42.5 (#194), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1273 | — |
| LMArena German | 1281 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1294 | — |
Instruction Following Gemma 3 4B leads
Gemma 3 4B: 65.2 (#225), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.2 (#231)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 74.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1239 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemma 3 4B: 38.7 (#194), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1273 | — |
Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Gemma 3 4B: 42.0 (#239), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#195)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1291 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1271 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1068 | — |
| WildBench | — | 73.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1255 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 3 4B better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?
Gemma 3 4B and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.1 vs 29.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Gemma 3 4B or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?
Gemma 3 4B is cheaper. It lists at $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.08 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5 7B Instruct lists at $0.17 and $0.70.
Is Gemma 3 4B or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (35.9 vs 36.5); test both on your own repository before choosing.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 131K tokens.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 4B and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?
6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 4B has 22 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.