Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Gemma 4 31B
73
Winner · 2/8 categoriesQwen3.6 Plus
69
2/8 categoriesGemma 4 31B· Qwen3.6 Plus
Pick Gemma 4 31B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6 Plus only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you need the larger 1M context window.
Gemma 4 31B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 73 to 69. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Gemma 4 31B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 80 against 64.9. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 84.3% to 90.4%. Qwen3.6 Plus does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Qwen3.6 Plus gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for Gemma 4 31B.
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| Benchmark | Gemma 4 31B | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | — | 61.6% |
| Claw-Eval | — | 58.7% |
| QwenClawBench | — | 57.2% |
| QwenWebBench | — | 1502 |
| TAU3-Bench | — | 70.7% |
| VITA-Bench | — | 44.3% |
| DeepPlanning | — | 41.5% |
| Toolathlon | — | 39.8% |
| MCP Atlas | — | 48.2% |
| MCP-Tasks | — | 74.1% |
| WideResearch | — | 74.3% |
| OSWorld-Verified | — | 62.5% |
| CodingGemma 4 31B wins | ||
| LiveCodeBench | 80% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 78.8% |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | 56.6% |
| SWE Multilingual | — | 73.8% |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | — | 87.1% |
| NL2Repo | — | 37.9% |
| Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.6 Plus wins | ||
| MMMU-Pro | 76.9% | 78.8% |
| MMMU | — | 86.0% |
| RealWorldQA | — | 85.4% |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | — | 91.2% |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | — | 87.8% |
| Video-MME (w/o subtitle) | — | 84.2% |
| MathVision | — | 88.0% |
| We-Math | — | 89.0% |
| DynaMath | — | 88.0% |
| MStar | — | 83.3% |
| SimpleVQA | — | 67.3% |
| ChatCVQA | — | 81.5% |
| MMLongBench-Doc | — | 62.0% |
| CC-OCR | — | 83.4% |
| AI2D_TEST | — | 94.4% |
| CountBench | — | 97.6% |
| RefCOCO (avg) | — | 93.5% |
| ODINW13 | — | 51.8% |
| ERQA | — | 65.7% |
| VideoMMMU | — | 84.0% |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | — | 86.7% |
| ScreenSpot Pro | — | 68.2% |
| ReasoningGemma 4 31B wins | ||
| BBH | 74.4% | — |
| MRCRv2 | 66.4% | — |
| AI-Needle | — | 68.3% |
| LongBench v2 | — | 62% |
| KnowledgeQwen3.6 Plus wins | ||
| GPQA | 84.3% | 90.4% |
| MMLU-Pro | 85.2% | 88.5% |
| HLE | 26.5% | 28.8% |
| HLE w/o tools | 19.5% | — |
| SuperGPQA | — | 71.6% |
| MMLU-Redux | — | 94.5% |
| C-Eval | — | 93.3% |
| Instruction Following | ||
| IFEval | — | 94.3% |
| IFBench | — | 74.2% |
| Multilingual | ||
| MMLU-ProX | — | 84.7% |
| NOVA-63 | — | 57.9% |
| INCLUDE | — | 85.1% |
| PolyMath | — | 77.4% |
| VWT2k-lite | — | 84.3% |
| MAXIFE | — | 88.2% |
| Mathematics | ||
| AIME26 | — | 95.3% |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | — | 96.7% |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | — | 94.6% |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | — | 87.8% |
| MMAnswerBench | — | 83.8% |
Gemma 4 31B is ahead overall, 73 to 69. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 84.3% and 90.4%.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 66 versus 61.3. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemma 4 31B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 64.9. Qwen3.6 Plus stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Gemma 4 31B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 66.4 versus 62. Qwen3.6 Plus stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.8 versus 76.9. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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