Model comparison
Gemma 7B vs Qwen3 8B
Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.3 to 29.5 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 1 category and Qwen3 8B in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3 8B leads 36.1 to 26.8.
Side by side
| Gemma 7B | Qwen3 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 33.3 |
| Released | 2024-02-21 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.18 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 27 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3 8B leads
Gemma 7B: 29.9 (#290), Qwen3 8B: 33.4 (#245)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 22.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1048 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 28.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 43.4% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemma 7B: —, Qwen3 8B: 29.9 (#71)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 42.6% |
Reasoning Gemma 7B leads
Gemma 7B: 19.0 (#247), Qwen3 8B: 16.1 (#299)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.74 | 136.17 |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1042 | — |
| DTBench | — | 59.7% |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
| Adversarial NLI | 48.7% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 55.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 82.2% | — |
| PIQA | 81.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 79% | — |
Math Qwen3 8B leads
Gemma 7B: 28.7 (#225), Qwen3 8B: 33.3 (#176)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 56.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1066 | — |
| GSM8K | 46.4% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3 8B leads
Gemma 7B: 26.8 (#248), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#164)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.8% |
| 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 8B: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 999 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1035 | — |
| LMArena French | 1024 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 993 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemma 7B: 51.7 (#290), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1017 | — |
Long Context Qwen3 8B leads
Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#277), Qwen3 8B: 37.8 (#205)
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1022 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Gemma 7B: 27.2 (#297), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1056 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1024 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 963 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 7B better than Qwen3 8B?
Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.3 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemma 7B or Qwen3 8B better for coding?
Qwen3 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.4 versus 29.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and Qwen3 8B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.