Model comparison
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Gemma 3 4B
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 28.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 7 categories and Gemma 3 4B in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 37.9 to 16.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 57.8% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 7.5% for Gemma 3 4B.
- Gemma 3 4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemma 3 4B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | ||
| Noometry Index | 35.1 | 28.1 |
| Released | 2024-12-06 | 2025-03-12 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.04 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.08 |
| Results tracked | 54 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemma 3 4B leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315), Gemma 3 4B: 35.9 (#215)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1350 | 1230 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 13.5% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 38.2% | — |
| WeirdML | 25.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 63.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.9% | — |
| CadEval | 30% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92), Gemma 3 4B: 20.9 (#142)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 19.6% |
| TheAgentCompany | 11.4% | — |
Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318), Gemma 3 4B: 13.2 (#335)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | 25.2% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1346 | 1253 |
| DTBench | 63.2% | 50.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.36 | 116.02 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 1.3% | — |
| SimpleBench | 31.1% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| EnigmaEval | 1.1% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 78.2% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 69.4% | — |
| LMCA | — | 2.8% |
| LiveBench | 66.9% | — |
Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146), Gemma 3 4B: 16.8 (#292)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | 7.5% |
| LMArena Math | 1352 | 1239 |
| Omni-MATH | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 75.8% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 82.2% | — |
| 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 4B: 11.8 (#299)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 64.1% | 23.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1339 | 1223 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 6.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 12.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 6.4% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 55.6% | — |
| MMLU | 79.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79), Gemma 3 4B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1158 | — |
| GeoBench | 77% | — |
Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149), Gemma 3 4B: 42.5 (#194)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1342 | 1273 |
| LMArena German | 1353 | 1281 |
| LMArena Russian | 1351 | 1294 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1373 | — |
| LMArena French | 1391 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1294 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1313 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1363 | — |
Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97), Gemma 3 4B: 65.2 (#225)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1336 | 1239 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 85.8% | — |
| IFEval | 84.1% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203), Gemma 3 4B: 38.7 (#194)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1344 | 1273 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 61.1% | — |
Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190), Gemma 3 4B: 42.0 (#239)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1354 | 1291 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1340 | 1271 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1128 | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1350 | 1255 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.8% | — |
| WildBench | 80% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 51.3% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Gemma 3 4B?
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 28.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or Gemma 3 4B better for coding?
Gemma 3 4B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Gemma 3 4B share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 4B has 22.