Model comparison

Gemma 1.1 7b IT vs o3

o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 31.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 1.1 7b IT Google

31.3

Rank #277 Confirmed

o3 OpenAI

47.5

Rank #61 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 1.1 7b 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 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 o3 specifications
Gemma 1.1 7b ITo3
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index31.347.5
Released—2025-04-16
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—100K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$8
Results tracked1963

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Category by category

Coding o3 leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 31.5 (#284), o3: 46.8 (#64)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITo3
LMArena Coding10841408
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+35.4%—
MBPP+45%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: —, o3: 34.5 (#44)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITo3
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 7b IT: 20.5 (#238), o3: 32.0 (#78)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITo3
LMArena Hard Prompts10711402
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 7b IT: 32.0 (#220), o3: 50.2 (#58)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITo3
LMArena Math11071426
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 7b IT: 28.3 (#247), o3: 54.6 (#52)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITo3
LMArena Expert10391402
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 7b IT: —, o3: 41.4 (#36)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITo3
LMArena Vision—1214
GeoBench—74%
VPCT—52%

Multilingual o3 leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 28.1 (#273), o3: 51.7 (#105)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITo3
LMArena Non-English10521401
LMArena Chinese10611437
LMArena French10651430
LMArena German10541420
LMArena Japanese9711403
LMArena Korean9881370
LMArena Russian10461406
LMArena Spanish10491395

Instruction Following o3 leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 54.0 (#283), o3: 72.8 (#127)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITo3
LMArena Instruction Following10571368
IFEval—86.9%

Long Context o3 leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 32.1 (#272), o3: 53.3 (#6)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITo3
LMArena Longer Query10561372
Fiction.LiveBench—88.9%
CL-bench—17.8%

Writing & Preference o3 leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 30.4 (#288), o3: 63.5 (#64)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITo3
LMArena Text10941410
LMArena Creative Writing10601359
LMArena Multi-Turn10401405
Short-Story Creative Writing—83.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1676
WildBench—86.1%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 1.1 7b IT better than o3?

o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 31.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 1.1 7b IT or o3 better for coding?

o3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.8 versus 31.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 1.1 7b IT and o3 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 1.1 7b IT has 19 scored results on Noometry and o3 has 63.

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