Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Gemma 7B

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

Gemma 7B Google

30.0

Rank #299 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 6 categories and Gemma 7B in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 48.7 to 27.1.
  • Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Gemma 7B specifications
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 7B
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index33.230.0
Released2024-05-142024-02-21
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked4227

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 7B
LMArena Coding12611048
HumanEval+75.6%28.7%
MBPP+67.5%43.4%
WeirdML24.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Gemma 7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 7B
BALROG14.6%—

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 7B
LMArena Hard Prompts12571042
Epoch Capabilities Index129.36111.99
PIQA87.5%81.2%
DTBench53.8%—
Adversarial NLI—48.7%
BIG-Bench Hard—55.1%
ForecastBench53.9—
HellaSwag—82.2%
WinoGrande—79%

Math Gemma 7B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 7B
LMArena Math12691066
GSM8K82.4%46.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%—
Omni-MATH30.4%—
MATH Level 561.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%—

Knowledge Gemma 7B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 7B
LMArena Expert12331001
BoolQ85.8%83.2%
MMLU77.9%66.1%
GPQA Diamond47.3%—
MMLU-Pro67.8%—
GPQA (HELM)43.7%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
OpenBookQA—78.6%
TriviaQA—72.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Gemma 7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 7B
LMArena Vision1141—
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 7B
LMArena Non-English1278999
LMArena Chinese12951035
LMArena French12581025
LMArena Russian1288993
LMArena German1262—
LMArena Japanese1252—
LMArena Korean1221—
LMArena Spanish1243—

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 7B
LMArena Instruction Following12581017
IFEval83.1%—

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 7B
LMArena Longer Query12841022

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Gemma 7B
LMArena Text12871056
LMArena Creative Writing12851024
LMArena Multi-Turn1253963
WildBench79.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Gemma 7B?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Gemma 7B better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Gemma 7B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 7B has 27.

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