Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Gemma 7B

Gemini 3.8 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.8 Flash Google

61.8

Rank #11 Confirmed

Gemma 7B Google

30.0

Rank #299 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.8 Flash scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.8 Flash leads 76.9 to 19.9.
  • Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.8 FlashGemma 7B
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index61.830.0
Released2026-09-022024-02-21
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.75—
Output $ / M tokens$3.75—
Results tracked5027

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 59.2 (#15), Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGemma 7B
LMArena Coding15101048
DeepSWE73.8%—
FrontierCode41.2%—
CursorBench39.6%—
LMArena WebDev1584—
FrontierSWE19.6%—
SciCode56.6%—
WeirdML84.8%—
ALE-Bench1,270—
HumanEval+—28.7%
MBPP+—43.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 41.8 (#21), Gemma 7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGemma 7B
APEX-Agents64.3%—
Remote Labor Index5.8%—
GDP.pdf23.4%—
Vending-Bench 25,094—

Reasoning Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 76.9 (#5), Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGemma 7B
LMArena Hard Prompts15081042
Epoch Capabilities Index156.71111.99
ARC-AGI-289.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)97.4%—
ARC-AGI-198.5%—
CritPt18.3%—
Chess Puzzles61%—
Mystery Game Puzzles47%—
DTBench95.7%—
LMCA52.9%—
Surface Evolver Bench76.9%—
Adversarial NLI—48.7%
BIG-Bench Hard—55.1%
HellaSwag—82.2%
PIQA—81.2%
WinoGrande—79%

Math Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 65.3 (#28), Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGemma 7B
LMArena Math15281066
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)68.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.9%—
ProofBench48%—
GSM8K—46.4%

Knowledge Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 74.8 (#2), Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGemma 7B
LMArena Expert15241001
GPQA Diamond95.4%—
Humanity's Last Exam44.5%—
SimpleQA Verified69.7%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—83.2%
MMLU—66.1%
OpenBookQA—78.6%
TriviaQA—72.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 40.7 (#45), Gemma 7B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGemma 7B
LMArena Vision1314—
Blueprint-Bench 238.6%—
Furniture Assembly31.7%—

Multilingual Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 58.0 (#5), Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGemma 7B
LMArena Non-English1491999
LMArena Chinese15541035
LMArena French14981025
LMArena Russian1515993
LMArena German1493—
LMArena Japanese1502—
LMArena Korean1459—
LMArena Spanish1485—

Instruction Following Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 78.0 (#13), Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGemma 7B
LMArena Instruction Following14901017

Long Context Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 46.3 (#24), Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGemma 7B
LMArena Longer Query15081022

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 72.2 (#15), Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302)

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGemma 7B
LMArena Text14991056
LMArena Creative Writing14921024
LMArena Multi-Turn1501963
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1748—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.8 Flash better than Gemma 7B?

Gemini 3.8 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3.8 Flash or Gemma 7B better for coding?

Gemini 3.8 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.2 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemma 7B share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.8 Flash has 50 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 7B has 27.

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