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Google: Gemma 4 31B (free) vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus

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

Google: Gemma 4 31B (free) Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
Vendorgoogleqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score53.743.2
Input PriceFree$0.33/M
Output PriceFree$1.95/M
Context Window262,1441,000,000
Max Output32,76865,536
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index31.344.6
eqbench70.8-

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemma 4 31B (free)Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
SQL Generation 140 139
Code Review 140 140
Code Completion 132 132
Code Refactoring 141 143
Bug Fixing 144 144
Unit Test Generation 130 129
Code Documentation 135 135
Regex Writing 126 124
CI/CD Pipelines 126 125
Frontend Component Design 128 127
Data Analysis 132 130
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 134 135
ETL Scripting 133 134
JSON Extraction 132 131
Bulk Data Labeling 130 129
OCR / Document Parsing 131 133
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 133
Long-Document Summarization 143 144
Short-Form Summarization 127 125
Blog Post Writing 128 127

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

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