Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Gemma 3 1B

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Google

45.0

Rank #75 Confirmed

Gemma 3 1B Google

21.1

Rank #353 Reported

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher in 4 categories and Gemma 3 1B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.5 Pro leads 56.0 to 7.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 84.7% for Gemini 2.5 Pro and 1.1% for Gemma 3 1B.
  • Gemma 3 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemma 3 1B specifications
Gemini 2.5 ProGemma 3 1B
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index45.021.1
Released2025-03-252025-03-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked784

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.4 (#101), Gemma 3 1B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemma 3 1B
SWE-bench Verified57.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)53.6%—
Aider Polyglot83.1%—
LMArena WebDev1227—
SciCode42.8%—
GSO3.9%—
WeirdML54%—
LiveBench Coding85.9%—
LMArena Coding1452—
CadEval64%—
ALE-Bench785.52—
AlgoTune1.51—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.2 (#88), Gemma 3 1B: 13.7 (#152)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemma 3 1B
Terminal-Bench32.6%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—7.2%
GDPval23.3%—
Remote Labor Index0.8%—
TheAgentCompany30.3%—
τ²-bench Banking13.7%—
DeepResearch Bench42.8%—
BALROG43.3%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons55.4%—
Vending-Bench 2573.64—

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 28.8 (#99), Gemma 3 1B: 19.2 (#264)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemma 3 1B
Chess Puzzles20%0%
ARC-AGI-24.9%—
SimpleBench62.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark70.3%—
ARC-AGI-141%—
CritPt2%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
LiveBench Reasoning89.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1455—
DTBench82.4%—
LiveBench Data Analysis79.9%—
LMCA34.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index145.32—
ForecastBench61.3—
LiveBench82.3%—

Math Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 32.5 (#213), Gemma 3 1B: 10.2 (#316)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemma 3 1B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584.7%1.1%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)24.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
Omni-MATH41.6%—
LiveBench Math90.2%—
LMArena Math1450—
MATH Level 595.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)14.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 56.0 (#46), Gemma 3 1B: 7.0 (#314)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemma 3 1B
GPQA Diamond85.3%19.9%
Humanity's Last Exam21.6%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%—
GPQA (HELM)74.9%—
LMArena Expert1452—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 45.2 (#18), Gemma 3 1B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemma 3 1B
LMArena Vision1263—
GeoBench86%—
VPCT48%—
LMArena Document1421—
SpatialViz-Bench44.7%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.3 (#31), Gemma 3 1B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemma 3 1B
LMArena Non-English1451—
LMArena Chinese1507—
LMArena French1472—
LMArena German1487—
LMArena Japanese1461—
LMArena Korean1434—
LMArena Russian1461—
LMArena Spanish1473—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.0 (#75), Gemma 3 1B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemma 3 1B
LiveBench Instruction Following80.6%—
IFEval84%—
LMArena Instruction Following1437—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.8 (#5), Gemma 3 1B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemma 3 1B
Fiction.LiveBench91.7%—
LMArena Longer Query1449—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.7 (#62), Gemma 3 1B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemma 3 1B
LMArena Text1458—
LMArena Creative Writing1454—
Short-Story Creative Writing83.8%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1421—
WildBench85.7%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1453—
LiveBench Language67.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro better than Gemma 3 1B?

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemma 3 1B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 1B has 4.

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