Gemma 3 27B vs Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

Gemma 3 27B· Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5-122B-A10B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 3 27B only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 71 to 38. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 76.3 against 16. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 15% to 78.9%.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Gemma 3 27B is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Qwen3.5-122B-A10B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 32K for Gemma 3 27B.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
Speed31 t/sN/A
TTFT2.04sN/A
Context32K262K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGemma 3 27BQwen3.5-122B-A10B
AgenticQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
Terminal-Bench 2.029%49.4%
BrowseComp42%63.8%
OSWorld-Verified35%58%
tau2-bench79.5%
CodingQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
HumanEval37%
SWE-bench Verified16%72%
LiveCodeBench15%78.9%
SWE-bench Pro17%
Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
MMMU-Pro39%76.9%
OfficeQA Pro45%
ReasoningQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
MuSR41%
BBH62%
LongBench v247%60.2%
MRCRv244%
KnowledgeQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
MMLU45%
GPQA44%86.6%
SuperGPQA42%67.1%
MMLU-Pro50%86.7%
HLE3%
FrontierScience42%
SimpleQA43%
Instruction FollowingQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
IFEval67%93.4%
MultilingualQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
MGSM64%
MMLU-ProX60%82.2%
Mathematics
AIME 202345%
AIME 202447%
AIME 202546%
HMMT Feb 202341%
HMMT Feb 202443%
HMMT Feb 202542%
BRUMO 202544%
MATH-50056%
Frequently Asked Questions (8)

Which is better, Gemma 3 27B or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is ahead overall, 71 to 38. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 15% and 78.9%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemma 3 27B or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.6 versus 35.2. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemma 3 27B or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 76.3 versus 16. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemma 3 27B or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 60.2 versus 44.4. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Gemma 3 27B or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 56 versus 34.4. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Gemma 3 27B or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.9 versus 41.7. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Gemma 3 27B or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 93.4 versus 67. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Gemma 3 27B or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.2 versus 61.4. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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