Model comparison
Gemma 1.1 2b IT vs o3
o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 1.1 2b IT scores higher in 0 categories and o3 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where o3 leads 63.5 to 25.1.
- Gemma 1.1 2b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemma 1.1 2b IT | o3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | |
| Noometry Index | 29.3 | 47.5 |
| Released | — | 2025-04-16 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 200K |
| Max output | — | 100K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $8 |
| Results tracked | 16 | 63 |
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Category by category
Coding o3 leads
Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.1 (#299), o3: 46.8 (#64)
| Benchmark | Gemma 1.1 2b IT | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1034 | 1408 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 62.3% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 58.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 81.3% |
| GSO | — | 8.8% |
| WeirdML | — | 52.4% |
| CadEval | — | 74% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 933.55 |
| HumanEval+ | 17.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 23.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemma 1.1 2b IT: —, o3: 34.5 (#44)
| Benchmark | Gemma 1.1 2b IT | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 63% |
| GDPval | — | 30.8% |
| DeepResearch Bench | — | 45.2% |
| OSWorld | — | 23% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1144 |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 65.4% |
Reasoning o3 leads
Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 19.1 (#270), o3: 32.0 (#78)
| Benchmark | Gemma 1.1 2b IT | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1005 | 1402 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 6.5% |
| SimpleBench | — | 53.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 67.6% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 60.8% |
| CritPt | — | 1.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 38% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 13.1% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 29% |
| DTBench | — | 84.8% |
| LMCA | — | 39.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 146.86 |
| ForecastBench | — | 62.5 |
Math o3 leads
Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.8 (#232), o3: 50.2 (#58)
| Benchmark | Gemma 1.1 2b IT | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1047 | 1426 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 33.3% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 84.4% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 71.4% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 97.8% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 18.7% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 2.1% |
Knowledge o3 leads
Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 26.5 (#258), o3: 54.6 (#52)
| Benchmark | Gemma 1.1 2b IT | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 970 | 1402 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 81.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 20.3% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 49.4% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 85.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 14.4% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 75.3% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemma 1.1 2b IT: —, o3: 41.4 (#36)
| Benchmark | Gemma 1.1 2b IT | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1214 |
| GeoBench | — | 74% |
| VPCT | — | 52% |
Multilingual o3 leads
Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 24.6 (#289), o3: 51.7 (#105)
| Benchmark | Gemma 1.1 2b IT | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 988 | 1401 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1012 | 1437 |
| LMArena German | 944 | 1420 |
| LMArena Korean | 899 | 1370 |
| LMArena Russian | 990 | 1406 |
| LMArena French | — | 1430 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1403 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1395 |
Instruction Following o3 leads
Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 49.9 (#299), o3: 72.8 (#127)
| Benchmark | Gemma 1.1 2b IT | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 992 | 1368 |
| IFEval | — | 86.9% |
Long Context o3 leads
Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.6 (#286), o3: 53.3 (#6)
| Benchmark | Gemma 1.1 2b IT | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1003 | 1372 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 88.9% |
| CL-bench | — | 17.8% |
Writing & Preference o3 leads
Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 25.1 (#306), o3: 63.5 (#64)
| Benchmark | Gemma 1.1 2b IT | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1022 | 1410 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 998 | 1359 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 959 | 1405 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 83.9% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1676 |
| WildBench | — | 86.1% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 1.1 2b IT better than o3?
o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemma 1.1 2b IT or o3 better for coding?
o3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.8 versus 30.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 1.1 2b IT and o3 share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 1.1 2b IT has 16 scored results on Noometry and o3 has 63.