Model comparison

Gemma 1.1 7b IT vs GPT-4.1

GPT-4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 31.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 1.1 7b IT Google

31.3

Rank #277 Confirmed

GPT-4.1 OpenAI

35.9

Rank #219 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 1.1 7b IT scores higher in 2 categories and GPT-4.1 in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4.1 leads 57.6 to 30.4.
  • Gemma 1.1 7b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 1.1 7b IT and GPT-4.1 specifications
Gemma 1.1 7b ITGPT-4.1
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index31.335.9
Released—2025-04-14
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$8
Results tracked1952

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4.1 leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 31.5 (#284), GPT-4.1: 34.4 (#238)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITGPT-4.1
LMArena Coding10841391
SWE-bench Verified—48.5%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—39.6%
Aider Polyglot—52.4%
WeirdML—39%
CadEval—42%
ALE-Bench—558.1
HumanEval+35.4%—
MBPP+45%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: —, GPT-4.1: 34.7 (#43)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITGPT-4.1
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—54%

Reasoning Gemma 1.1 7b IT leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 20.5 (#238), GPT-4.1: 11.7 (#339)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITGPT-4.1
LMArena Hard Prompts10711384
ARC-AGI-2—0.4%
SimpleBench—27%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—52.3%
ARC-AGI-1—5.5%
Chess Puzzles—6%
EnigmaEval—2.2%
DTBench—68.3%
LMCA—25.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index—136.78
ForecastBench—61.5

Math Gemma 1.1 7b IT leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 32.0 (#220), GPT-4.1: 22.3 (#280)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITGPT-4.1
LMArena Math11071370
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—38.3%
Omni-MATH—47.1%
MATH Level 5—83%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—5.5%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge GPT-4.1 leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 28.3 (#247), GPT-4.1: 37.1 (#160)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITGPT-4.1
LMArena Expert10391364
GPQA Diamond—66.9%
Humanity's Last Exam—5.4%
SimpleQA Verified—31.1%
MMLU-Pro—81.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.6%
GPQA (HELM)—65.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: —, GPT-4.1: 38.2 (#67)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITGPT-4.1
LMArena Vision—1211
GeoBench—72%

Multilingual GPT-4.1 leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 28.1 (#273), GPT-4.1: 49.4 (#133)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITGPT-4.1
LMArena Non-English10521370
LMArena Chinese10611382
LMArena French10651382
LMArena German10541381
LMArena Japanese9711319
LMArena Korean9881339
LMArena Russian10461377
LMArena Spanish10491376

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 54.0 (#283), GPT-4.1: 71.3 (#153)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITGPT-4.1
LMArena Instruction Following10571367
IFEval—83.8%

Long Context GPT-4.1 leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 32.1 (#272), GPT-4.1: 40.0 (#163)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITGPT-4.1
LMArena Longer Query10561385
Fiction.LiveBench—63.9%

Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 30.4 (#288), GPT-4.1: 57.6 (#125)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITGPT-4.1
LMArena Text10941383
LMArena Creative Writing10601363
LMArena Multi-Turn10401398
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1420
WildBench—85.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 1.1 7b IT better than GPT-4.1?

GPT-4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 31.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 1.1 7b IT or GPT-4.1 better for coding?

GPT-4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 31.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 1.1 7b IT and GPT-4.1 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 1.1 7b IT has 19 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 has 52.

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