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Model comparison

Gemma 1.1 2b IT vs GPT-4.1 nano

Gemma 1.1 2b IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.3 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 1.1 2b IT Google

29.3

Rank #313 Confirmed

GPT-4.1 nano OpenAI

27.9

Rank #327 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 1.1 2b IT scores higher in 5 categories and GPT-4.1 nano in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where GPT-4.1 nano leads 67.8 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 nano
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index29.327.9
Released—2025-04-14
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked1638

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 1.1 2b IT leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.1 (#299), GPT-4.1 nano: 24.1 (#330)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Coding10341306
Aider Polyglot—8.9%
SciCode—25.9%
WeirdML—19%
HumanEval+17.7%—
MBPP+23.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 26.5 (#104)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-4.1 nano
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—33%

Reasoning Gemma 1.1 2b IT leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 19.1 (#270), GPT-4.1 nano: 8.5 (#349)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Hard Prompts10051286
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—33.3%
ARC-AGI-1—0%
CritPt—0%
DTBench—52.5%
LMCA—5.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—129.62

Math Gemma 1.1 2b IT leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.8 (#232), GPT-4.1 nano: 26.9 (#252)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Math10471274
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—28.9%
Omni-MATH—36.7%
MATH Level 5—70%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1%

Knowledge Gemma 1.1 2b IT leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 26.5 (#258), GPT-4.1 nano: 21.8 (#273)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Expert9701272
GPQA Diamond—48.9%
SimpleQA Verified—6%
MMLU-Pro—55%
GPQA (HELM)—50.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 29.2 (#113)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Vision—1063

Multilingual GPT-4.1 nano leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 24.6 (#289), GPT-4.1 nano: 41.6 (#205)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Non-English9881260
LMArena Chinese10121270
LMArena German9441288
LMArena Russian9901261
LMArena Japanese—1198
LMArena Korean899—

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 nano leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 49.9 (#299), GPT-4.1 nano: 67.8 (#193)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Instruction Following9921267
IFEval—84.3%

Long Context Gemma 1.1 2b IT leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.6 (#286), GPT-4.1 nano: 23.7 (#296)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Longer Query10031283
Fiction.LiveBench—25%

Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 nano leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 25.1 (#306), GPT-4.1 nano: 40.5 (#243)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Text10221285
LMArena Creative Writing9981260
LMArena Multi-Turn9591277
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—946
WildBench—81.2%

Frequently asked questions

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

Gemma 1.1 2b IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.3 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

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

Gemma 1.1 2b IT scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.1 versus 24.1 in the Noometry coding category.

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

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 1.1 2b IT has 16 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 nano has 38.

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