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R1 Distill Qwen 32B vs Gemma 2 2b It

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Winner summary

R1 Distill Qwen 32B wins 4 of 6 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge · math · reasoning.

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Hype vs Reality
R1 Distill Qwen 32B
#283 by perf·#14 by attention
QUIET
Gemma 2 2b It
#214 by perf·no signal
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Best value
R1 Distill Qwen 32B
79.3 pts/$
$0.29/M
Gemma 2 2b It
n/a
no price
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
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Google DeepMind
$4.20T·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
R1 Distill Qwen 32BGemma 2 2b It
BBH (HuggingFace)
Gemma 2 2b It leads by +0.8
R1 Distill Qwen 32B
17.1
Gemma 2 2b It
18.0
GPQA
R1 Distill Qwen 32B leads by +1.3
R1 Distill Qwen 32B
4.6
Gemma 2 2b It
3.2
IFEval
Gemma 2 2b It leads by +14.8
R1 Distill Qwen 32B
41.9
Gemma 2 2b It
56.7
MATH Level 5
R1 Distill Qwen 32B leads by +17.0
R1 Distill Qwen 32B
17.1
Gemma 2 2b It
0.1
MMLU-PRO
R1 Distill Qwen 32B leads by +23.7
R1 Distill Qwen 32B
41.0
Gemma 2 2b It
17.2
MUSR
R1 Distill Qwen 32B leads by +9.1
R1 Distill Qwen 32B
16.1
Gemma 2 2b It
7.1
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkR1 Distill Qwen 32BGemma 2 2b It
BBH (HuggingFace)
17.118.0
GPQA
4.63.2
IFEval
41.956.7
MATH Level 5
17.10.1
MMLU-PRO
41.017.2
MUSR
16.17.1
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoR1 Distill Qwen 32B$0.29$0.2933K tokens (~16 books)$2.90
Google DeepMind logoGemma 2 2b It————