Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Gemma 3 1B

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) Google

35.1

Rank #228 Confirmed

Gemma 3 1B Google

21.1

Rank #353 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 3 categories and Gemma 3 1B in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 37.9 to 10.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 57.8% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 1.1% for Gemma 3 1B.
  • Gemma 3 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

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Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Gemma 3 1B specifications
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemma 3 1B
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index35.121.1
Released2024-12-062025-03-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked544

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315), Gemma 3 1B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemma 3 1B
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)13.5%—
Aider Polyglot38.2%—
WeirdML25.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.9%—
LiveBench Coding63.4%—
LMArena Coding1350—
BigCodeBench Complete59.9%—
CadEval30%—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92), Gemma 3 1B: 13.7 (#152)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemma 3 1B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—7.2%
TheAgentCompany11.4%—

Reasoning Gemma 3 1B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318), Gemma 3 1B: 19.2 (#264)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemma 3 1B
ARC-AGI-21.3%—
SimpleBench31.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.8%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
EnigmaEval1.1%—
LiveBench Reasoning78.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1346—
DTBench63.2%—
LiveBench Data Analysis69.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index135.36—
LiveBench66.9%—

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146), Gemma 3 1B: 10.2 (#316)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemma 3 1B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%1.1%
Omni-MATH45.9%—
LiveBench Math75.8%—
LMArena Math1352—
MATH Level 582.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213), Gemma 3 1B: 7.0 (#314)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemma 3 1B
GPQA Diamond64.1%19.9%
Humanity's Last Exam6.6%—
MMLU-Pro73.7%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)55.6%—
LMArena Expert1339—
MMLU79.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79), Gemma 3 1B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Vision1158—
GeoBench77%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149), Gemma 3 1B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Non-English1342—
LMArena Chinese1373—
LMArena French1391—
LMArena German1353—
LMArena Japanese1294—
LMArena Korean1313—
LMArena Russian1351—
LMArena Spanish1363—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97), Gemma 3 1B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemma 3 1B
LiveBench Instruction Following85.8%—
IFEval84.1%—
LMArena Instruction Following1336—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203), Gemma 3 1B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemma 3 1B
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—
LMArena Longer Query1344—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190), Gemma 3 1B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Text1354—
LMArena Creative Writing1340—
Short-Story Creative Writing73.8%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1128—
WildBench80%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1350—
LiveBench Language51.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Gemma 3 1B?

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Gemma 3 1B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 1B has 4.

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