Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Gemma 3 1B

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

Gemma 3 1B Google

21.1

Rank #353 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 4 categories and Gemma 3 1B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 26.2 to 7.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 47.3% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 19.9% for Gemma 3 1B.
  • Gemma 3 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 3 1B
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index33.221.1
Released2024-05-142025-03-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked424

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 3 1B
WeirdML24.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
LMArena Coding1261—
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%—
HumanEval+75.6%—
MBPP+67.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Gemma 3 1B: 13.7 (#152)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 3 1B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—7.2%
BALROG14.6%—

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Gemma 3 1B: 19.2 (#264)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 3 1B
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1257—
DTBench53.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index129.36—
ForecastBench53.9—
PIQA87.5%—

Math Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Gemma 3 1B: 10.2 (#316)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 3 1B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%1.1%
Omni-MATH30.4%—
LMArena Math1269—
MATH Level 561.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%—
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Gemma 3 1B: 7.0 (#314)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 3 1B
GPQA Diamond47.3%19.9%
MMLU-Pro67.8%—
GPQA (HELM)43.7%—
LMArena Expert1233—
BoolQ85.8%—
MMLU77.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Vision1141—
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Non-English1278—
LMArena Chinese1295—
LMArena French1258—
LMArena German1262—
LMArena Japanese1252—
LMArena Korean1221—
LMArena Russian1288—
LMArena Spanish1243—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 3 1B
IFEval83.1%—
LMArena Instruction Following1258—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Longer Query1284—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Text1287—
LMArena Creative Writing1285—
WildBench79.2%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1253—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Gemma 3 1B?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Gemma 3 1B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 1B has 4.

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