I have tested Gemma4-26B against Qwen3.6-35B. Gemma beats Qwen on structured data extraction and instruction following. Gemma is far more precise than Qwen in these tasks, while Qwen gets a bit more creative, verbose, and imprecise. However Qwen has far more general smartness, high token throughput. Qwen could precisely pinpoint the issues in data quality and code, while Gemma had no clue. On the coding skills, Qwen appears to have edge over Gemma, but this could depend on the agent you use. For direct chat (llama_cpp UI), bot models show same skills for coding.