Head-to-head comparison across 2benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Gemma 4 31B
65
Qwen3.5-27B
62
Verified leaderboard positions: Gemma 4 31B unranked · Qwen3.5-27B #18
Pick Gemma 4 31B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5-27B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you need the larger 262K context window.
Coding
+21.4 difference
Knowledge
+19.3 difference
Gemma 4 31B
Qwen3.5-27B
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Pick Gemma 4 31B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5-27B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you need the larger 262K context window.
Gemma 4 31B has the cleaner provisional overall profile here, landing at 65 versus 62. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
Qwen3.5-27B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 256K for Gemma 4 31B.
Gemma 4 31B is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 65 to 62. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-Rebench, where the scores are 41.6% and 58.9%.
Qwen3.5-27B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.6 versus 61.3. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-27B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 63 versus 41.6. Inside this category, SWE-Rebench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Estimates at 50,000 req/day · 1000 tokens/req average.
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