Model comparison

Gemma 1.1 2b IT vs GPT-5.5

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 1.1 2b IT Google

28.8

Rank #313 Confirmed

GPT-5.5 OpenAI

63.4

Rank #8 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 1.1 2b IT scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.5 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.5 leads 72.7 to 18.2.
  • Gemma 1.1 2b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 1.1 2b IT and GPT-5.5 specifications
Gemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5.5
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index28.863.4
Released—2026-04-23
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$5
Output $ / M tokens—$30
Results tracked1671

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.5 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 29.6 (#294), GPT-5.5: 58.3 (#13)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5.5
LMArena Coding10341494
SWE-bench Verified—80.6%
DeepSWE—67%
FrontierCode—43%
LMArena WebDev—1512
SciCode—56.1%
GSO—40.2%
WeirdML—84.9%
MirrorCode—10%
ALE-Bench—1,943
HumanEval+17.7%—
MBPP+23.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: —, GPT-5.5: 50.7 (#6)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5.5
Terminal-Bench—84.7%
APEX-Agents—55.1%
OSWorld 2.0—13%
Remote Labor Index—6.3%
τ²-bench Banking—44.6%
DeepResearch Bench—54%
PostTrainBench—27.2%
ExploitBench—47.4%
GBAEval—53.2%
GDP.pdf—26%
LMArena Search—1242
Vending-Bench 2—7,524

Reasoning GPT-5.5 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 18.2 (#268), GPT-5.5: 72.7 (#8)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5.5
LMArena Hard Prompts10051489
ARC-AGI-2—85%
SimpleBench—69%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—88.8%
NYT Connections (extended)—96.2%
ARC-AGI-1—95%
CritPt—27.1%
Chess Puzzles—54%
EBR-Bench—34.3%
Mystery Game Puzzles—56%
DTBench—96%
LMCA—54.3%
Surface Evolver Bench—88.1%
Bench to the Future 3—0.14
Epoch Capabilities Index—159.25
ForecastBench—60.6

Math GPT-5.5 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 28.3 (#230), GPT-5.5: 81.5 (#9)

Knowledge GPT-5.5 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 26.0 (#255), GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#14)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5.5
LMArena Expert9701508
GPQA Diamond—94%
SimpleQA Verified—63%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: —, GPT-5.5: 47.1 (#11)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5.5
LMArena Vision—1297
Blueprint-Bench 2—36.2%
Furniture Assembly—44.2%
LMArena Document—1486

Multilingual GPT-5.5 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 24.7 (#284), GPT-5.5: 56.5 (#19)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5.5
LMArena Non-English9881467
LMArena Chinese10111535
LMArena German9441478
LMArena Korean8991461
LMArena Russian9901473
LMArena French—1486
LMArena Japanese—1498
LMArena Spanish—1469

Instruction Following GPT-5.5 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 50.1 (#294), GPT-5.5: 77.7 (#18)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5.5
LMArena Instruction Following9921479

Long Context GPT-5.5 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.5 (#281), GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5.5
LMArena Longer Query10031484
CL-bench Life—22.2%

Writing & Preference GPT-5.5 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 25.3 (#301), GPT-5.5: 72.8 (#13)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGPT-5.5
LMArena Text10221471
LMArena Creative Writing9981455
LMArena Multi-Turn9581477
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1844
EQ-Bench 4—1315

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 1.1 2b IT better than GPT-5.5?

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 1.1 2b IT or GPT-5.5 better for coding?

GPT-5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.3 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 1.1 2b IT and GPT-5.5 share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 1.1 2b IT has 16 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.5 has 71.

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