Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct leads with 9.1% higher average benchmark score. Gemma 3 27B supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Google DeepMind
Gemma 3 27B is a 27-billion-parameter open-weight model from Google DeepMind, released in March 2025 alongside the Gemma 3 12B as the higher-capability variant in the series, built with native vision-language support for text and image inputs across a 128K token context window. Among the Gemma 3 releases, the 27B delivered the strongest results on instruction-following and knowledge-intensive reasoning tasks, making it the preferred option for developers needing greater accuracy from a self-hostable model. Its open-weight availability under a permissive license made it a common starting point for vision-language fine-tuning projects.
Alibaba / Qwen
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct is a 7-billion-parameter code-specialized model from Alibaba, released in November 2024 as part of the Qwen2.5-Coder family, trained on a curated corpus spanning 92 programming languages with emphasis on code generation, debugging, and fill-in-the-middle completion. Built on the Qwen2.5 architecture, it extends the base series' improvements in instruction-following and long-context handling to coding-specific tasks within a compact deployable footprint. It became popular for integration into IDE extensions, CI pipelines, and self-hosted code assistant tools.
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Alibaba / Qwen
2024-11-12

Gemma 3 27B
Google DeepMind
2025-03-12
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
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Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
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Available providers and their performance metrics
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