Model comparison
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Gemma 3 4B
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 28.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 3 4B in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 26.2 to 11.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 47.3% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 23.2% for Gemma 3 4B.
- Gemma 3 4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Gemma 3 4B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | ||
| Noometry Index | 33.2 | 28.1 |
| Released | 2024-05-14 | 2025-03-12 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.04 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.08 |
| Results tracked | 42 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemma 3 4B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Gemma 3 4B: 35.9 (#215)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1261 | 1230 |
| WeirdML | 24.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | — |
| 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 4B: 20.9 (#142)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 19.6% |
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |
Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Gemma 3 4B: 13.2 (#335)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1253 |
| DTBench | 53.8% | 50.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.36 | 116.02 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 25.2% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMCA | — | 2.8% |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |
Math Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Gemma 3 4B: 16.8 (#292)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | 7.5% |
| LMArena Math | 1269 | 1239 |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | — |
Knowledge Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Gemma 3 4B: 11.8 (#299)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | 23.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | 1223 |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 6.4% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | — |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |
| MMLU | 77.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Gemma 3 4B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |
Multilingual Too close to call
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Gemma 3 4B: 42.5 (#194)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | 1273 |
| LMArena German | 1262 | 1281 |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | 1294 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | — |
| LMArena French | 1258 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1221 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1243 | — |
Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Gemma 3 4B: 65.2 (#225)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | 1239 |
| IFEval | 83.1% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Gemma 3 4B: 38.7 (#194)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | 1273 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Gemma 3 4B: 42.0 (#239)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1291 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | 1271 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | 1255 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1068 |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Gemma 3 4B?
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 28.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Gemma 3 4B better for coding?
Gemma 3 4B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Gemma 3 4B share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 4B has 22.