Model comparison

Gemma 2 2b IT vs GPT-5.2

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 33.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2 2b IT Google

33.1

Rank #248 Confirmed

GPT-5.2 OpenAI

54.1

Rank #34 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 2b IT scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.2 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-5.2 leads 66.8 to 36.5.
  • Gemma 2 2b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 2 2b IT and GPT-5.2 specifications
Gemma 2 2b ITGPT-5.2
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index33.154.1
Released—2025-12-11
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.75
Output $ / M tokens—$14
Results tracked1767

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.2 leads

Gemma 2 2b IT: 32.3 (#273), GPT-5.2: 51.6 (#37)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 2b ITGPT-5.2
LMArena Coding11121447
SWE-bench Verified—73.8%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—72.8%
LMArena WebDev—1416
SWE-bench Multilingual—66.7%
GSO—27.4%
WeirdML—72.2%
ALE-Bench—1,294
AlgoTune—2.05

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 2 2b IT: —, GPT-5.2: 40.2 (#24)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 2b ITGPT-5.2
Terminal-Bench—64.9%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—55.9%
GDPval—49.7%
Remote Labor Index—2.5%
τ²-bench Airline—83%
τ²-bench Banking—32.2%
τ²-bench Retail—81.6%
τ²-bench Telecom—89.7%
DeepResearch Bench—41.1%
LMArena Search—1207
METR Time Horizons—75.3%
Vending-Bench 2—3,591

Reasoning GPT-5.2 leads

Gemma 2 2b IT: 21.4 (#224), GPT-5.2: 50.2 (#35)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 2b ITGPT-5.2
LMArena Hard Prompts11131445
ARC-AGI-2—52.9%
SimpleBench—45.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—73.3%
NYT Connections (extended)—83.6%
ARC-AGI-1—86.2%
Chess Puzzles—49%
EnigmaEval—10.4%
EBR-Bench—23%
Mystery Game Puzzles—23%
DTBench—90.9%
LMCA—43.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—153.45
ForecastBench—60.1

Math GPT-5.2 leads

Gemma 2 2b IT: 32.6 (#212), GPT-5.2: 60.0 (#38)

Knowledge GPT-5.2 leads

Gemma 2 2b IT: 29.9 (#231), GPT-5.2: 59.3 (#32)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 2b ITGPT-5.2
LMArena Expert10961445
GPQA Diamond—91.4%
Humanity's Last Exam—27.8%
SimpleQA Verified—37.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 2 2b IT: —, GPT-5.2: 51.3 (#7)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 2b ITGPT-5.2
LMArena Vision—1268
VPCT—84%
Furniture Assembly—38.3%
LMArena Document—1405

Multilingual GPT-5.2 leads

Gemma 2 2b IT: 32.3 (#257), GPT-5.2: 53.4 (#67)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 2b ITGPT-5.2
LMArena Non-English11211425
LMArena Chinese11321460
LMArena French11571455
LMArena German11141448
LMArena Japanese10831420
LMArena Korean10551392
LMArena Russian11181440
LMArena Spanish11401433

Instruction Following GPT-5.2 leads

Gemma 2 2b IT: 57.8 (#263), GPT-5.2: 74.7 (#89)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 2b ITGPT-5.2
LMArena Instruction Following11181417

Long Context GPT-5.2 leads

Gemma 2 2b IT: 34.3 (#250), GPT-5.2: 44.0 (#78)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 2b ITGPT-5.2
LMArena Longer Query11301428
CL-bench—18.2%

Writing & Preference GPT-5.2 leads

Gemma 2 2b IT: 36.5 (#263), GPT-5.2: 66.8 (#32)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 2b ITGPT-5.2
LMArena Text11561439
LMArena Creative Writing11471401
LMArena Multi-Turn11181458
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1703

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 2 2b IT better than GPT-5.2?

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 33.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 2 2b IT or GPT-5.2 better for coding?

GPT-5.2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 32.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 2b IT and GPT-5.2 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 2b IT has 17 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.2 has 67.

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