Model comparison

Gemma 1.1 2b IT vs o4-mini

o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 1.1 2b IT Google

29.3

Rank #313 Confirmed

o4-mini OpenAI

41.6

Rank #132 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 1.1 2b IT scores higher in 0 categories and o4-mini in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where o4-mini leads 54.0 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 and o4-mini specifications
Gemma 1.1 2b ITo4-mini
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index29.341.6
Released—2025-04-16
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—100K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.10
Output $ / M tokens—$4.40
Results tracked1660

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Category by category

Coding o4-mini leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.1 (#299), o4-mini: 40.9 (#127)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITo4-mini
LMArena Coding10341368
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—45%
Aider Polyglot—72%
GSO—3.6%
WeirdML—52.6%
CadEval—62%
ALE-Bench—826.17
AlgoTune—1.72
HumanEval+17.7%—
MBPP+23.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: —, o4-mini: 32.6 (#61)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITo4-mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—53.2%
GDPval—25.3%
METR Time Horizons—63.9%

Reasoning o4-mini leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 19.1 (#270), o4-mini: 24.6 (#162)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITo4-mini
LMArena Hard Prompts10051351
ARC-AGI-2—6.1%
SimpleBench—38.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—67.6%
ARC-AGI-1—58.7%
CritPt—0.6%
Chess Puzzles—26%
EnigmaEval—9.2%
Mystery Game Puzzles—5%
DTBench—77.6%
LMCA—26.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—145.64
ForecastBench—61.8

Math o4-mini leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.8 (#232), o4-mini: 40.8 (#89)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITo4-mini
LMArena Math10471389
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—36.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4—4.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—81.7%
Omni-MATH—72%
MATH Level 5—97.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—24.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—6.3%

Knowledge o4-mini leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 26.5 (#258), o4-mini: 43.6 (#91)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITo4-mini
LMArena Expert9701343
GPQA Diamond—79.6%
Humanity's Last Exam—18.1%
SimpleQA Verified—19.6%
MMLU-Pro—82%
Confabulations—15.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—18.6%
GPQA (HELM)—73.5%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: —, o4-mini: 40.2 (#49)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITo4-mini
LMArena Vision—1194
GeoBench—64%
VPCT—57.5%

Multilingual o4-mini leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 24.6 (#289), o4-mini: 47.0 (#154)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITo4-mini
LMArena Non-English9881337
LMArena Chinese10121354
LMArena German9441336
LMArena Korean8991312
LMArena Russian9901334
LMArena French—1364
LMArena Japanese—1308
LMArena Spanish—1347

Instruction Following o4-mini leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 49.9 (#299), o4-mini: 75.2 (#68)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITo4-mini
LMArena Instruction Following9921321
IFEval—92.8%

Long Context o4-mini leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.6 (#286), o4-mini: 45.5 (#33)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITo4-mini
LMArena Longer Query10031315
Fiction.LiveBench—77.8%

Writing & Preference o4-mini leads

Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 25.1 (#306), o4-mini: 54.0 (#152)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 2b ITo4-mini
LMArena Text10221353
LMArena Creative Writing9981294
LMArena Multi-Turn9591350
Short-Story Creative Writing—75%
WildBench—85.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 1.1 2b IT better than o4-mini?

o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 1.1 2b IT or o4-mini better for coding?

o4-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.9 versus 30.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 1.1 2b IT and o4-mini share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 1.1 2b IT has 16 scored results on Noometry and o4-mini has 60.

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