Model comparison

Gemma 2 2b IT vs Laguna M.1

Gemma 2 2b IT and Laguna M.1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.1 vs 32.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

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Gemma 2 2b IT Google

33.1

Rank #248 Confirmed

Laguna M.1 Poolside

32.5

Rank #256 Reported

Summary

  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 2 2b IT leads 32.6 to 21.1.

Side by side

Gemma 2 2b IT and Laguna M.1 specifications
Gemma 2 2b ITLaguna M.1
ProviderGooglePoolside
Noometry Index33.132.5
Released—2026-04-28
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked173

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Category by category

Coding Laguna M.1 leads

Gemma 2 2b IT: 32.3 (#273), Laguna M.1: 36.6 (#204)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 2b ITLaguna M.1
LMArena WebDev—1349
LMArena Coding1112—

Reasoning Laguna M.1 leads

Gemma 2 2b IT: 21.4 (#224), Laguna M.1: 23.1 (#184)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 2b ITLaguna M.1
LMArena Hard Prompts1113—
Surface Evolver Bench—15.6%

Math Gemma 2 2b IT leads

Gemma 2 2b IT: 32.6 (#212), Laguna M.1: 21.1 (#283)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 2b ITLaguna M.1
ProofBench—0%
LMArena Math1135—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemma 2 2b IT: 29.9 (#231), Laguna M.1: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 2b ITLaguna M.1
LMArena Expert1096—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 2 2b IT: 32.3 (#257), Laguna M.1: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 2b ITLaguna M.1
LMArena Non-English1121—
LMArena Chinese1132—
LMArena French1157—
LMArena German1114—
LMArena Japanese1083—
LMArena Korean1055—
LMArena Russian1118—
LMArena Spanish1140—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 2 2b IT: 57.8 (#263), Laguna M.1: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 2b ITLaguna M.1
LMArena Instruction Following1118—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 2 2b IT: 34.3 (#250), Laguna M.1: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 2b ITLaguna M.1
LMArena Longer Query1130—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 2 2b IT: 36.5 (#263), Laguna M.1: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2 2b ITLaguna M.1
LMArena Text1156—
LMArena Creative Writing1147—
LMArena Multi-Turn1118—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 2 2b IT better than Laguna M.1?

Gemma 2 2b IT and Laguna M.1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.1 vs 32.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemma 2 2b IT or Laguna M.1 better for coding?

Laguna M.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.6 versus 32.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 2b IT and Laguna M.1 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 2b IT has 17 scored results on Noometry and Laguna M.1 has 3.

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