Model comparison

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 vs Gemma 3 12B

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 OpenAI

43.8

Rank #82 Confirmed

Gemma 3 12B Google

32.1

Rank #262 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 3 12B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 leads 33.8 to 15.7.
  • Gemma 3 12B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 and Gemma 3 12B specifications
Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326Gemma 3 12B
ProviderOpenAIGoogle
Noometry Index43.832.1
Released—2025-03-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.05
Output $ / M tokens—$0.15
Results tracked2124

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Category by category

Coding Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 leads

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326: 41.6 (#122), Gemma 3 12B: 31.7 (#280)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkChatgpt 4o Latest 20250326Gemma 3 12B
LMArena Coding14131281
SciCode—17.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326: —, Gemma 3 12B: 25.5 (#108)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkChatgpt 4o Latest 20250326Gemma 3 12B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—30.4%

Reasoning Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 leads

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326: 33.8 (#71), Gemma 3 12B: 15.7 (#313)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkChatgpt 4o Latest 20250326Gemma 3 12B
LMArena Hard Prompts14241309
Kagi LLM Benchmark75%—
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—0%
DTBench—48.8%
LMCA—4.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—123.5

Math Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 leads

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326: 38.6 (#134), Gemma 3 12B: 22.3 (#279)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkChatgpt 4o Latest 20250326Gemma 3 12B
LMArena Math14071307
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—16.7%

Knowledge Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 leads

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326: 39.2 (#137), Gemma 3 12B: 26.5 (#257)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkChatgpt 4o Latest 20250326Gemma 3 12B
LMArena Expert14011248
GPQA Diamond—39.5%
Confabulations16.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—4.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326: 39.6 (#58), Gemma 3 12B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkChatgpt 4o Latest 20250326Gemma 3 12B
LMArena Vision1243—
MindCube—46.7%

Multilingual Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 leads

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326: 52.9 (#76), Gemma 3 12B: 45.7 (#165)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkChatgpt 4o Latest 20250326Gemma 3 12B
LMArena Non-English14191318
LMArena German14231370
LMArena Russian14291335
LMArena Chinese1457—
LMArena French1446—
LMArena Japanese1405—
LMArena Korean1396—
LMArena Spanish1434—

Instruction Following Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 leads

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326: 74.0 (#107), Gemma 3 12B: 68.6 (#186)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkChatgpt 4o Latest 20250326Gemma 3 12B
LMArena Instruction Following14031299

Long Context Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 leads

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326: 43.1 (#107), Gemma 3 12B: 40.0 (#162)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkChatgpt 4o Latest 20250326Gemma 3 12B
LMArena Longer Query14131317

Writing & Preference Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 leads

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326: 62.6 (#72), Gemma 3 12B: 47.5 (#209)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkChatgpt 4o Latest 20250326Gemma 3 12B
LMArena Text14291334
LMArena Creative Writing14051331
EQ-Bench Creative Writing15011126
LMArena Multi-Turn14541334

Frequently asked questions

Is Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 better than Gemma 3 12B?

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 or Gemma 3 12B better for coding?

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.6 versus 31.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 and Gemma 3 12B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 has 21 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 12B has 24.

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