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gemma-2-9b-it

AI model

Open weights
Yes

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

Overall text preferences from head-to-head votes. Not factual accuracy or a task-success rate.

gemma-2-9b-it 1207.4 Gemma 2 9B IT · 95% interval 1203.6–1211.2 · 54,611 votes · 2026-10-28

Recorded results

Only the same benchmark, version, workload, scenario and unit share a row. Missing results are not zero. System results include the full submitted hardware and software configuration.

Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,184.83 rating

Confidence interval: 1,175.08 – 1,194.58

4980 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 9B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,173.21 rating

Confidence interval: 1,166.02 – 1,180.40

8921 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 9B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,205.28 rating

Confidence interval: 1,197.82 – 1,212.75

8340 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 9B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,219.71 rating

Confidence interval: 1,214.96 – 1,224.47

29787 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 9B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,089.97 rating

Confidence interval: 1,084.09 – 1,095.86

34710 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 9B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,147.00 rating

Confidence interval: 1,135.20 – 1,158.80

2847 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 9B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,190.37 rating

Confidence interval: 1,164.11 – 1,216.63

591 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 9B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,186.10 rating

Confidence interval: 1,169.77 – 1,202.44

1580 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 9B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,171.26 rating

Confidence interval: 1,165.39 – 1,177.12

14756 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 9B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,177.63 rating

Confidence interval: 1,170.50 – 1,184.75

9094 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 9B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,189.84 rating

Confidence interval: 1,181.29 – 1,198.38

6175 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 9B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,184.84 rating

Confidence interval: 1,177.82 – 1,191.86

9128 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 9B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,215.15 rating

Confidence interval: 1,203.60 – 1,226.71

3243 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 9B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,203.50 rating

Confidence interval: 1,196.17 – 1,210.83

9169 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 9B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,193.18 rating

Confidence interval: 1,185.04 – 1,201.31

6297 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 9B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,165.33 rating

Confidence interval: 1,152.68 – 1,177.99

2812 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 9B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,196.47 rating

Confidence interval: 1,190.40 – 1,202.54

14591 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 9B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,218.93 rating

Confidence interval: 1,212.91 – 1,224.94

14640 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 9B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,178.04 rating

Confidence interval: 1,172.78 – 1,183.29

21359 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 9B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,144.37 rating

Confidence interval: 1,126.61 – 1,162.12

1301 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 9B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,136.65 rating

Confidence interval: 1,115.49 – 1,157.81

1087 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 9B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,196.34 rating

Confidence interval: 1,188.57 – 1,204.12

6877 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 9B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,183.16 rating

Confidence interval: 1,175.49 – 1,190.82

7110 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 9B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,193.38 rating

Confidence interval: 1,186.10 – 1,200.65

9730 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 9B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,187.69 rating

Confidence interval: 1,182.75 – 1,192.63

24824 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 9B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,207.37 rating

Confidence interval: 1,203.57 – 1,211.17

54611 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 9B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,200.23 rating

Confidence interval: 1,192.14 – 1,208.33

6684 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 9B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,200.30 rating

Confidence interval: 1,174.47 – 1,226.12

614 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 9B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,184.88 rating

Confidence interval: 1,175.13 – 1,194.63

4980 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-9b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,173.31 rating

Confidence interval: 1,166.12 – 1,180.50

8921 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-9b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,205.44 rating

Confidence interval: 1,197.97 – 1,212.91

8340 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-9b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,219.66 rating

Confidence interval: 1,214.91 – 1,224.42

29787 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-9b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,089.99 rating

Confidence interval: 1,084.11 – 1,095.87

34710 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-9b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,147.05 rating

Confidence interval: 1,135.24 – 1,158.85

2847 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-9b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,190.05 rating

Confidence interval: 1,163.78 – 1,216.32

591 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-9b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,186.10 rating

Confidence interval: 1,169.82 – 1,202.38

1580 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-9b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,171.25 rating

Confidence interval: 1,165.38 – 1,177.11

14756 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-9b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,177.52 rating

Confidence interval: 1,170.39 – 1,184.64

9094 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-9b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,189.88 rating

Confidence interval: 1,181.33 – 1,198.43

6175 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-9b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,184.90 rating

Confidence interval: 1,177.88 – 1,191.92

9128 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-9b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,214.90 rating

Confidence interval: 1,203.34 – 1,226.45

3243 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-9b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,203.48 rating

Confidence interval: 1,196.15 – 1,210.82

9169 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-9b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,193.17 rating

Confidence interval: 1,185.04 – 1,201.30

6297 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-9b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,165.40 rating

Confidence interval: 1,152.73 – 1,178.06

2812 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-9b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,196.56 rating

Confidence interval: 1,190.48 – 1,202.63

14591 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-9b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,218.99 rating

Confidence interval: 1,212.98 – 1,225.00

14640 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-9b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,178.05 rating

Confidence interval: 1,172.79 – 1,183.30

21359 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-9b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,144.21 rating

Confidence interval: 1,126.53 – 1,161.88

1301 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-9b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,136.69 rating

Confidence interval: 1,115.55 – 1,157.83

1087 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-9b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,196.39 rating

Confidence interval: 1,188.61 – 1,204.17

6877 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-9b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,183.12 rating

Confidence interval: 1,175.46 – 1,190.78

7110 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-9b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,193.38 rating

Confidence interval: 1,186.10 – 1,200.65

9730 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-9b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,187.78 rating

Confidence interval: 1,182.84 – 1,192.72

24824 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-9b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,207.36 rating

Confidence interval: 1,203.56 – 1,211.16

54611 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-9b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,200.38 rating

Confidence interval: 1,192.29 – 1,208.48

6684 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-9b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

gemma-2-9b-it

1,200.22 rating

Confidence interval: 1,174.37 – 1,226.07

614 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-9b-it
Evaluation type
human preference

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Inference · memory estimate

gemma-2-9b-it

17.2 GiB checkpoint tensor payload · 9.24 B stored tensor elements · BF16

Stored tensors can include buffers and repeated shared weights. A verified unique parameter count is unavailable. Checkpoint size is not the memory required to run the model.

Capabilities

Open weights
Yes
Model license
gemma
Checkpoint tensor payload
17.21 GiB

Input modalities

  • text

Output modalities

  • text