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Model comparison

Gemma 1.1 2b IT vs GPT-4.1 mini

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.6 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 1.1 2b IT Google

29.3

Rank #313 Confirmed

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.6

Rank #240 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 1.1 2b IT scores higher in 2 categories and GPT-4.1 mini in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where GPT-4.1 mini leads 73.7 to 49.9.
  • Gemma 1.1 2b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-4.1 mini
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index29.333.6
Released—2025-04-14
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$1.60
Results tracked1647

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.1 (#299), GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Coding10341367
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—23.9%
Aider Polyglot—32.4%
SciCode—40.4%
WeirdML—37.6%
BigCodeBench Instruct—48.9%
CadEval—16%
HumanEval+17.7%—
MBPP+23.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-4.1 mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—50.5%

Reasoning Gemma 1.1 2b IT leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 19.1 (#270), GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Hard Prompts10051349
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—48.6%
ARC-AGI-1—3.5%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—7%
Mystery Game Puzzles—7%
DTBench—68.8%
LMCA—21.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—135.01

Math Gemma 1.1 2b IT leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.8 (#232), GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Math10471343
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—6.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—44.7%
Omni-MATH—49.1%
MATH Level 5—87.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—4.5%

Knowledge GPT-4.1 mini leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 26.5 (#258), GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Expert9701338
GPQA Diamond—65.8%
SimpleQA Verified—12.7%
MMLU-Pro—78.3%
GPQA (HELM)—61.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Vision—1181

Multilingual GPT-4.1 mini leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 24.6 (#289), GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Non-English9881318
LMArena Chinese10121329
LMArena German9441351
LMArena Korean8991298
LMArena Russian9901324
LMArena French—1358
LMArena Japanese—1290
LMArena Spanish—1319

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 mini leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 49.9 (#299), GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Instruction Following9921333
IFEval—90.4%

Long Context GPT-4.1 mini leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.6 (#286), GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Longer Query10031344
Fiction.LiveBench—44.4%

Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 mini leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 25.1 (#306), GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Text10221340
LMArena Creative Writing9981300
LMArena Multi-Turn9591354
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1147
WildBench—83.8%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 1.1 2b IT better than GPT-4.1 mini?

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.6 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 1.1 2b IT or GPT-4.1 mini better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (30.1 vs 30.6); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 1.1 2b IT and GPT-4.1 mini share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 1.1 2b IT has 16 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 mini has 47.

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