Model comparison

Gemma 1.1 7b IT vs GPT-4o

Gemma 1.1 7b IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.3 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 1.1 7b IT Google

31.3

Rank #277 Confirmed

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 1.1 7b IT scores higher in 3 categories and GPT-4o in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4o leads 52.6 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-4o specifications
Gemma 1.1 7b ITGPT-4o
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index31.328.6
Released—2024-05-13
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—128K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$2.50
Output $ / M tokens—$10
Results tracked1972

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 1.1 7b IT leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 31.5 (#284), GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITGPT-4o
LMArena Coding10841297
HumanEval+35.4%87.2%
MBPP+45%72.2%
SWE-bench Verified—31%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21.6%
Aider Polyglot—45.3%
GSO—0%
WeirdML—25.1%
BigCodeBench Instruct—51.1%
LiveBench Coding—51.4%
BigCodeBench Complete—61.1%
CadEval—26%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: —, GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITGPT-4o
GDPval—9.9%
TheAgentCompany—8.6%
Cybench—12.5%
BALROG—32.3%
LMArena Search—1006
METR Time Horizons—40.8%

Reasoning Gemma 1.1 7b IT leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 20.5 (#238), GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITGPT-4o
LMArena Hard Prompts10711281
ARC-AGI-2—0%
SimpleBench—17.8%
ARC-AGI-1—4.5%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—13%
EnigmaEval—0.8%
LiveBench Reasoning—55.8%
DTBench—64.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis—60.9%
LMCA—16.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index—128.97
ForecastBench—57.7
LiveBench—55.3%

Math Gemma 1.1 7b IT leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 32.0 (#220), GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITGPT-4o
LMArena Math11071285
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—0.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—6.4%
Omni-MATH—29.3%
LiveBench Math—49.5%
MATH Level 5—53.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.3%

Knowledge Too close to call

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 28.3 (#247), GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITGPT-4o
LMArena Expert10391250
GPQA Diamond—49.2%
Humanity's Last Exam—2.7%
SimpleQA Verified—26%
MMLU-Pro—71.3%
Confabulations—15.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.6%
GPQA (HELM)—52%
MMLU—88.1%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: —, GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITGPT-4o
LMArena Vision—1137
Video-MME—71.9%
GeoBench—71%
VPCT—40%
ScienceQA—88.5%

Multilingual GPT-4o leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 28.1 (#273), GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITGPT-4o
LMArena Non-English10521283
LMArena Chinese10611277
LMArena French10651304
LMArena German10541282
LMArena Japanese9711257
LMArena Korean9881234
LMArena Russian10461286
LMArena Spanish10491292

Instruction Following GPT-4o leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 54.0 (#283), GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITGPT-4o
LMArena Instruction Following10571278
LiveBench Instruction Following—68.6%
IFEval—81.7%

Long Context GPT-4o leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 32.1 (#272), GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITGPT-4o
LMArena Longer Query10561289
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%

Writing & Preference GPT-4o leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 30.4 (#288), GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITGPT-4o
LMArena Text10941300
LMArena Creative Writing10601292
LMArena Multi-Turn10401302
Short-Story Creative Writing—81.8%
WildBench—82.8%
LiveBench Language—47.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 1.1 7b IT better than GPT-4o?

Gemma 1.1 7b IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.3 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 1.1 7b IT or GPT-4o better for coding?

Gemma 1.1 7b IT scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.5 versus 24.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 1.1 7b IT and GPT-4o share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 1.1 7b IT has 19 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4o has 72.

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