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Google: Gemma 4 31B (free) vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B

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

Google: Gemma 4 31B (free) Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B
Vendorgoogleqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score53.718.3
Input PriceFree$0.10/M
Output PriceFree$0.15/M
Context Window262,144262,144
Max Output32,76832,768
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index31.322.5
eqbench70.8-

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemma 4 31B (free)Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B
SQL Generation 140 133
Code Review 140 130
Code Completion 132 129
Code Refactoring 141 131
Bug Fixing 144 134
Unit Test Generation 130 123
Code Documentation 135 128
Regex Writing 126 122
CI/CD Pipelines 126 119
Frontend Component Design 128 124
Data Analysis 132 127
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 134 129
ETL Scripting 133 125
JSON Extraction 132 131
Bulk Data Labeling 130 129
OCR / Document Parsing 131 129
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 129
Long-Document Summarization 143 133
Short-Form Summarization 127 125
Blog Post Writing 128 121

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

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