# Gemma 4 12B vs Qwen3.6-27B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Gemma 4 12B and Qwen3.6-27B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/gemma-4-12b-vs-qwen3-6-27b
- Last updated: September 4, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.6-27B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 12B only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Qwen3.6-27B leads overall 52.72 to 46.64.
- The clearest category separation is in reasoning, where the averages are 34 for Gemma 4 12B and 73.7 for Qwen3.6-27B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is AIME26 in Mathematics, with scores of 77.5% and 94.1%.
- Qwen3.6-27B also has the larger context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Gemma 4 12B | Qwen3.6-27B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Google | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 262K |
| Overall Score | 46.64 | 52.72 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 12 | 38 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemma 4 12B public-lane score: 47.9 (Estimated · #81/151)
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 33.9 (Supported · #133/151)

| Benchmark | Gemma 4 12B | Qwen3.6-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 59.3% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 72.4% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 53.4% | Coming soon |
| QwenWebBench | Coming soon | 1487 | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | Coming soon | 70.3% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 54.84% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemma 4 12B public-lane score: 46.6 (Estimated · #97/183)
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 42.6 (Supported · #128/183)

| Benchmark | Gemma 4 12B | Qwen3.6-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 72.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 77.2% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 71.3% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 53.5% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 59.3% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench | Coming soon | 83.9% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 36.2% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemma 4 12B public-lane score: 26.1 (#44/48)
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 51.9 (#35/48)

| Benchmark | Gemma 4 12B | Qwen3.6-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 69.1% | 75.8% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| MathVision | 79.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | 48.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU | Coming soon | 82.9% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 84.1% | Coming soon |
| DynaMath | Coming soon | 85.6% | Coming soon |
| MStar | Coming soon | 81.4% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 56.1% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 78.4% | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | Coming soon | 81.2% | Coming soon |
| CountBench | Coming soon | 97.8% | Coming soon |
| RefCOCO (avg) | Coming soon | 92.5% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 62.5% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 87.7% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 84.4% | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 94.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemma 4 12B public-lane score: 34 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 73.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Gemma 4 12B | Qwen3.6-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BBH | 53% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MRCRv2 | 43.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemma 4 12B public-lane score: 40.4 (Supported · #138/181)
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 49 (Estimated · #95/181)

| Benchmark | Gemma 4 12B | Qwen3.6-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 78.8% | 87.8% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| GPQA-D | 78.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.2% | 86.2% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| HLE w/o tools | 5.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMLU | 83.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 93.5% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 66% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 91.4% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 24% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemma 4 12B public-lane score: 89.8 (#21/120)
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 82.2 (#50/120)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemma 4 12B public-lane score: 57.6 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 72.8 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Gemma 4 12B | Qwen3.6-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 77.5% | 94.1% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 93.8% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | Coming soon | 90.7% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 84.3% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 80.8% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Gemma 4 12B or Qwen3.6-27B?

Qwen3.6-27B is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Gemma 4 12B and Qwen3.6-27B?

The widest category gap is in reasoning, where the averages are 34 for Gemma 4 12B and 73.7 for Qwen3.6-27B.

### How many benchmarks does Gemma 4 12B cover on BenchLM?

Gemma 4 12B currently has 12 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.6-27B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.6-27B currently has 38 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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