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Model comparison

Gemma 1.1 2b IT vs Grok 4

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 1.1 2b IT Google

29.3

Rank #313 Confirmed

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 1.1 2b IT scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 4 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Grok 4 leads 58.5 to 25.1.
  • Gemma 1.1 2b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 1.1 2b ITGrok 4
ProviderGooglexAI
Noometry Index29.348.1
Released—2025-07-09
WeightsOpenProprietary
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Results tracked1648

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.1 (#299), Grok 4: 50.3 (#46)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGrok 4
LMArena Coding10341408
Aider Polyglot—79.6%
WeirdML—45.7%
HumanEval+17.7%—
MBPP+23.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: —, Grok 4: 32.3 (#68)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGrok 4
Terminal-Bench—27.2%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—63%
GDPval—21.1%
Cybench—43%
DeepResearch Bench—47.3%
BALROG—43.6%
LMArena Search—1142
METR Time Horizons—66.6%

Reasoning Grok 4 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 19.1 (#270), Grok 4: 36.7 (#65)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGrok 4
LMArena Hard Prompts10051409
ARC-AGI-2—16%
SimpleBench—60.5%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—73.6%
ARC-AGI-1—66.7%
Chess Puzzles—28%
Epoch Capabilities Index—146.44
ForecastBench—60.9

Math Grok 4 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.8 (#232), Grok 4: 48.4 (#64)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGrok 4
LMArena Math10471422
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—84%
Omni-MATH—60.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—19.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 26.5 (#258), Grok 4: 53.8 (#55)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGrok 4
LMArena Expert9701415
GPQA Diamond—87%
MMLU-Pro—85.1%
Confabulations—12.4%
GPQA (HELM)—72.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: —, Grok 4: 33.7 (#94)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGrok 4
LMArena Vision—1210
GeoBench—45%

Multilingual Grok 4 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 24.6 (#289), Grok 4: 51.8 (#103)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGrok 4
LMArena Non-English9881403
LMArena Chinese10121427
LMArena German9441429
LMArena Korean8991377
LMArena Russian9901410
LMArena French—1418
LMArena Japanese—1394
LMArena Spanish—1420

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 49.9 (#299), Grok 4: 79.2 (#5)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGrok 4
LMArena Instruction Following9921387
IFEval—94.9%

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.6 (#286), Grok 4: 63.1 (#4)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGrok 4
LMArena Longer Query10031409
Fiction.LiveBench—94.4%

Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 25.1 (#306), Grok 4: 58.5 (#116)

BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITGrok 4
LMArena Text10221411
LMArena Creative Writing9981397
LMArena Multi-Turn9591416
Short-Story Creative Writing—76.9%
WildBench—79.7%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 1.1 2b IT better than Grok 4?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 1.1 2b IT or Grok 4 better for coding?

Grok 4 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 Grok 4 share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 1.1 2b IT has 16 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4 has 48.

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