Model comparison

Gemma 1.1 2b IT vs GPT-5

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 1.1 2b IT Google

29.3

Rank #313 Confirmed

GPT-5 OpenAI

50.9

Rank #45 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 1.1 2b IT scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where GPT-5 leads 69.5 to 30.6.
  • Gemma 1.1 2b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 1.1 2b IT and GPT-5 specifications
Gemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index29.350.9
Released—2025-08-07
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.25
Output $ / M tokens—$10
Results tracked1669

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.1 (#299), GPT-5: 50.3 (#47)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5
LMArena Coding10341436
SWE-bench Verified—73.6%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—65%
Aider Polyglot—88%
LMArena WebDev—1418
SciCode—42.9%
GSO—6.9%
WeirdML—60.7%
ALE-Bench—1,162
AlgoTune—1.67
HumanEval+17.7%—
MBPP+23.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: —, GPT-5: 33.1 (#56)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5
Terminal-Bench—49.6%
GDPval—34.8%
Remote Labor Index—1.7%
DeepResearch Bench—49.6%
BALROG—32.8%
LMArena Search—1133
METR Time Horizons—69.6%

Reasoning GPT-5 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 19.1 (#270), GPT-5: 38.3 (#64)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5
LMArena Hard Prompts10051416
ARC-AGI-2—9.9%
SimpleBench—56.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—72.7%
ARC-AGI-1—65.7%
CritPt—12.6%
Chess Puzzles—37%
EnigmaEval—10.5%
EBR-Bench—12.7%
Mystery Game Puzzles—23%
DTBench—90.7%
LMCA—40%
Epoch Capabilities Index—150
ForecastBench—61.4

Math GPT-5 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.8 (#232), GPT-5: 55.0 (#44)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5
LMArena Math10471407
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—55.4%
FrontierMath Tier 4—22%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—91.4%
ProofBench—18%
Omni-MATH—64.7%
MATH Level 5—98.1%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—32.4%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—12.5%

Knowledge GPT-5 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 26.5 (#258), GPT-5: 56.6 (#43)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5
LMArena Expert9701419
GPQA Diamond—86.2%
Humanity's Last Exam—25.3%
SimpleQA Verified—50.1%
MMLU-Pro—86.3%
Confabulations—10.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—14.7%
GPQA (HELM)—79.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: —, GPT-5: 46.8 (#13)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5
LMArena Vision—1232
GeoBench—81%
VPCT—66%

Multilingual GPT-5 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 24.6 (#289), GPT-5: 51.4 (#110)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5
LMArena Non-English9881397
LMArena Chinese10121422
LMArena German9441416
LMArena Korean8991360
LMArena Russian9901406
LMArena French—1410
LMArena Japanese—1409
LMArena Spanish—1399

Instruction Following GPT-5 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 49.9 (#299), GPT-5: 73.8 (#113)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5
LMArena Instruction Following9921388
IFEval—87.5%

Long Context GPT-5 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.6 (#286), GPT-5: 69.5 (#2)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5
LMArena Longer Query10031399
Fiction.LiveBench—97.2%

Writing & Preference GPT-5 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 25.1 (#306), GPT-5: 63.4 (#65)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5
LMArena Text10221406
LMArena Creative Writing9981365
LMArena Multi-Turn9591426
Short-Story Creative Writing—86%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1627
WildBench—85.7%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 1.1 2b IT better than GPT-5?

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 1.1 2b IT or GPT-5 better for coding?

GPT-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 30.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 1.1 2b IT and GPT-5 share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 1.1 2b IT has 16 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5 has 69.

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