Noometry

Model comparison

Gemma 2 9B vs GPT-4.1 nano

GPT-4.1 nano is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.9 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2 9B Google

25.9

Rank #341 Confirmed

GPT-4.1 nano OpenAI

27.9

Rank #327 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 9B scores higher in 3 categories and GPT-4.1 nano in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-4.1 nano leads 26.9 to 9.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 21% for Gemma 2 9B and 70% for GPT-4.1 nano.
  • Gemma 2 9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 2 9BGPT-4.1 nano
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index25.927.9
Released2024-06-242025-04-14
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked3538

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 2 9B leads

Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304), GPT-4.1 nano: 24.1 (#330)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Coding11731306
Aider Polyglot—8.9%
SciCode—25.9%
WeirdML—19%
BigCodeBench Instruct34.7%—
LiveBench Coding22.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete40.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 26.5 (#104)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-4.1 nano
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—33%

Reasoning Gemma 2 9B leads

Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309), GPT-4.1 nano: 8.5 (#349)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Hard Prompts11711286
Epoch Capabilities Index119.83129.62
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—33.3%
ARC-AGI-1—0%
CritPt—0%
LiveBench Reasoning15.2%—
DTBench—52.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis36.4%—
LMCA—5.5%
LiveBench28.7%—
PIQA83.7%—

Math GPT-4.1 nano leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318), GPT-4.1 nano: 26.9 (#252)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-4.1 nano
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250.6%28.9%
LMArena Math11831274
MATH Level 521%70%
Omni-MATH—36.7%
LiveBench Math19.8%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1%
GSM8K84.9%—

Knowledge GPT-4.1 nano leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305), GPT-4.1 nano: 21.8 (#273)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-4.1 nano
GPQA Diamond27.5%48.9%
LMArena Expert11471272
SimpleQA Verified—6%
MMLU-Pro—55%
GPQA (HELM)—50.7%
BoolQ85.7%—
MMLU72.1%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 29.2 (#113)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Vision—1063

Multilingual GPT-4.1 nano leads

Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238), GPT-4.1 nano: 41.6 (#205)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Non-English11881260
LMArena Chinese11851270
LMArena German11861288
LMArena Japanese11441198
LMArena Russian12001261
LMArena French1190—
LMArena Korean1137—
LMArena Spanish1200—

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 nano leads

Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269), GPT-4.1 nano: 67.8 (#193)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Instruction Following11781267
LiveBench Instruction Following52.6%—
IFEval—84.3%

Long Context Gemma 2 9B leads

Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233), GPT-4.1 nano: 23.7 (#296)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Longer Query11971283
Fiction.LiveBench—25%

Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 nano leads

Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281), GPT-4.1 nano: 40.5 (#243)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Text12071285
LMArena Creative Writing12061260
EQ-Bench Creative Writing841946
LMArena Multi-Turn11931277
WildBench—81.2%
LiveBench Language25.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 2 9B better than GPT-4.1 nano?

GPT-4.1 nano is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.9 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 2 9B or GPT-4.1 nano better for coding?

Gemma 2 9B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.4 versus 24.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 9B and GPT-4.1 nano share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 9B has 35 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 nano has 38.

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