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Google: Gemma 4 31B (free) vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

Google: Gemma 4 31B (free) Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B
Vendorgoogleqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score53.735.5
Input PriceFree$0.20/M
Output PriceFree$1.56/M
Context Window262,144262,144
Max Output32,76865,536
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index31.337.8
eqbench70.8-

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemma 4 31B (free)Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B
SQL Generation 140 135
Code Review 140 133
Code Completion 132 129
Code Refactoring 141 133
Bug Fixing 144 137
Unit Test Generation 130 125
Code Documentation 135 129
Regex Writing 126 123
CI/CD Pipelines 126 121
Frontend Component Design 128 126
Data Analysis 132 129
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 134 129
ETL Scripting 133 127
JSON Extraction 132 131
Bulk Data Labeling 130 129
OCR / Document Parsing 131 130
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 130
Long-Document Summarization 143 135
Short-Form Summarization 127 125
Blog Post Writing 128 123

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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