Model comparison
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs Gemma 3 4B
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.1 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 Pro (May 2024) scores higher in 6 categories and Gemma 3 4B in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads 29.4 to 11.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 57.2% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (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 Pro (May 2024) | Gemma 3 4B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | ||
| Noometry Index | 32.1 | 28.1 |
| Released | 2024-02-15 | 2025-03-12 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.04 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.08 |
| Results tracked | 45 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemma 3 4B leads
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241), Gemma 3 4B: 35.9 (#215)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1294 | 1230 |
| WeirdML | 22.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.5% | — |
| CadEval | 34% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 79.3% | — |
| MBPP+ | 74.6% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Gemma 3 4B leads
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145), Gemma 3 4B: 20.9 (#142)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 19.6% |
| TheAgentCompany | 3.4% | — |
| Cybench | 7.5% | — |
| BALROG | 21% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338), Gemma 3 4B: 13.2 (#335)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1296 | 1253 |
| DTBench | 59% | 50.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 131.73 | 116.02 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 27.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 25.2% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMCA | — | 2.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 89.2% | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
Math Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266), Gemma 3 4B: 16.8 (#292)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 23.1% | 7.5% |
| LMArena Math | 1315 | 1239 |
| Omni-MATH | 36.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 70.4% | — |
Knowledge Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239), Gemma 3 4B: 11.8 (#299)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 57.2% | 23.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1279 | 1223 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 13.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 6.4% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 53.4% | — |
| MMLU | 86.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77), Gemma 3 4B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1161 | — |
| Video-MME | 75% | — |
Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174), Gemma 3 4B: 42.5 (#194)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1312 | 1273 |
| LMArena German | 1286 | 1281 |
| LMArena Russian | 1320 | 1294 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1331 | — |
| LMArena French | 1302 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1292 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1298 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1311 | — |
Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185), Gemma 3 4B: 65.2 (#225)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | 1239 |
| IFEval | 83.7% | — |
Long Context Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169), Gemma 3 4B: 38.7 (#194)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1308 | 1273 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172), Gemma 3 4B: 42.0 (#239)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1319 | 1291 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1333 | 1271 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1296 | 1255 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1068 |
| WildBench | 81.3% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better than Gemma 3 4B?
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.1 to 28.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) or Gemma 3 4B better for coding?
Gemma 3 4B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Gemma 3 4B share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 4B has 22.