Head-to-head comparison across 1benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Gemma 4 E4B
41
Qwen3.6-27B
72
Verified leaderboard positions: Gemma 4 E4B unranked · Qwen3.6-27B #10
Pick Qwen3.6-27B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 E4B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
Knowledge
+3.4 difference
Gemma 4 E4B
Qwen3.6-27B
$0 / $0
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128K
262K
Pick Qwen3.6-27B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 E4B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
Qwen3.6-27B is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 72 to 41. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Qwen3.6-27B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 128K for Gemma 4 E4B.
Qwen3.6-27B is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 72 to 41. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 58.6% and 87.8%.
Gemma 4 E4B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 65.6 versus 62.2. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Estimates at 50,000 req/day · 1000 tokens/req average.
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