Model comparison

Gemma 7B vs Qwen3-1.7B

Gemma 7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.5 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 0 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 7B

Google

29.5

Rank #295 Confirmed

Qwen3-1.7B

Alibaba (Qwen)

26.2

Rank #331 Reported

Summary

The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 7B leads 28.7 to 15.4.

Side by side

Gemma 7B and Qwen3-1.7B specifications
	Gemma 7B	Qwen3-1.7B
Provider	Google	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	29.5	26.2
Released	2024-02-21	2025-04-29
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	—	—
Max output	—	—
Input $ / M tokens	—	—
Output $ / M tokens	—	—
Results tracked	27	4

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 7B: 29.9 (#290), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 7B	Qwen3-1.7B
LMArena Coding	1048	—
HumanEval+	28.7%	—
MBPP+	43.4%	—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 7B: —, Qwen3-1.7B: 24.5 (#108)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 7B	Qwen3-1.7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	—	28.4%

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemma 7B: 19.0 (#247), Qwen3-1.7B: 18.5 (#263)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 7B	Qwen3-1.7B
Chess Puzzles	—	0%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1042	—
Adversarial NLI	48.7%	—
BIG-Bench Hard	55.1%	—
Epoch Capabilities Index	111.74	—
HellaSwag	82.2%	—
PIQA	81.2%	—
WinoGrande	79%	—

Math Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 28.7 (#225), Qwen3-1.7B: 15.4 (#288)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 7B	Qwen3-1.7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	8.1%
LMArena Math	1066	—
GSM8K	46.4%	—

Knowledge Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 26.8 (#248), Qwen3-1.7B: 19.6 (#273)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 7B	Qwen3-1.7B
GPQA Diamond	—	38%
LMArena Expert	1002	—
ARC (AI2) Challenge	78.3%	—
BoolQ	83.2%	—
MMLU	66.1%	—
OpenBookQA	78.6%	—
TriviaQA	72.3%	—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 7B: 25.3 (#282), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 7B	Qwen3-1.7B
LMArena Non-English	999	—
LMArena Chinese	1035	—
LMArena French	1024	—
LMArena Russian	993	—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 7B: 51.7 (#290), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 7B	Qwen3-1.7B
LMArena Instruction Following	1017	—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#277), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 7B	Qwen3-1.7B
LMArena Longer Query	1022	—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 7B: 27.2 (#297), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 7B	Qwen3-1.7B
LMArena Text	1056	—
LMArena Creative Writing	1024	—
LMArena Multi-Turn	963	—

Frequently asked questions

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