Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Gemma 4 12B
53
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
56
Verified leaderboard positions: Gemma 4 12B unranked · Qwen3.5-35B-A3B #25
Pick Qwen3.5-35B-A3B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 12B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Coding
+13.6 difference
Reasoning
+15.6 difference
Knowledge
+1.5 difference
Gemma 4 12B
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
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256K
262K
Pick Qwen3.5-35B-A3B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 12B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the cleaner provisional overall profile here, landing at 56 versus 53. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 59 against 43.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU-Pro, 77.2% to 85.3%. Gemma 4 12B does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 256K for Gemma 4 12B.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 56 to 53. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU-Pro, where the scores are 77.2% and 85.3%.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.3 versus 77.8. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemma 4 12B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 72 versus 58.4. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 59 versus 43.4. Gemma 4 12B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
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