Model comparison

Gemma 1.1 2b IT vs GPT-5.2

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 1.1 2b IT Google

28.8

Rank #313 Confirmed

GPT-5.2 OpenAI

54.1

Rank #31 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 1.1 2b IT scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.2 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-5.2 leads 67.0 to 25.3.
  • Gemma 1.1 2b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 1.1 2b IT and GPT-5.2 specifications
Gemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5.2
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index28.854.1
Released—2025-12-11
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.75
Output $ / M tokens—$14
Results tracked1667

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.2 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 29.6 (#294), GPT-5.2: 52.2 (#32)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5.2
LMArena Coding10341447
SWE-bench Verified—73.8%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—72.8%
LMArena WebDev—1415
SWE-bench Multilingual—66.7%
GSO—27.4%
WeirdML—72.2%
ALE-Bench—1,294
AlgoTune—2.05
HumanEval+17.7%—
MBPP+23.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: —, GPT-5.2: 40.0 (#24)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5.2
Terminal-Bench—64.9%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—55.9%
GDPval—49.7%
Remote Labor Index—2.5%
τ²-bench Airline—83%
τ²-bench Banking—32.2%
τ²-bench Retail—81.6%
τ²-bench Telecom—89.7%
DeepResearch Bench—41.1%
LMArena Search—1207
METR Time Horizons—75.3%
Vending-Bench 2—3,591

Reasoning GPT-5.2 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 18.2 (#268), GPT-5.2: 50.1 (#33)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5.2
LMArena Hard Prompts10051445
ARC-AGI-2—52.9%
SimpleBench—45.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—73.3%
NYT Connections (extended)—83.6%
ARC-AGI-1—86.2%
Chess Puzzles—49%
EnigmaEval—10.4%
EBR-Bench—23%
Mystery Game Puzzles—23%
DTBench—90.9%
LMCA—43.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—153.45
ForecastBench—60.1

Math GPT-5.2 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 28.3 (#230), GPT-5.2: 59.8 (#32)

Knowledge GPT-5.2 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 26.0 (#255), GPT-5.2: 59.2 (#29)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5.2
LMArena Expert9701445
GPQA Diamond—91.4%
Humanity's Last Exam—27.8%
SimpleQA Verified—37.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: —, GPT-5.2: 50.9 (#7)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5.2
LMArena Vision—1268
VPCT—84%
Furniture Assembly—38.3%
LMArena Document—1405

Multilingual GPT-5.2 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 24.7 (#284), GPT-5.2: 53.6 (#63)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5.2
LMArena Non-English9881425
LMArena Chinese10111460
LMArena German9441448
LMArena Korean8991390
LMArena Russian9901440
LMArena French—1456
LMArena Japanese—1421
LMArena Spanish—1433

Instruction Following GPT-5.2 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 50.1 (#294), GPT-5.2: 74.9 (#83)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5.2
LMArena Instruction Following9921417

Long Context GPT-5.2 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.5 (#281), GPT-5.2: 44.0 (#74)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5.2
LMArena Longer Query10031428
CL-bench—18.2%

Writing & Preference GPT-5.2 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 25.3 (#301), GPT-5.2: 67.0 (#30)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5.2
LMArena Text10221439
LMArena Creative Writing9981402
LMArena Multi-Turn9581458
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1703

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 1.1 2b IT better than GPT-5.2?

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 1.1 2b IT or GPT-5.2 better for coding?

GPT-5.2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.2 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 1.1 2b IT and GPT-5.2 share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 1.1 2b IT has 16 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.2 has 67.

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