Noometry

Model comparison

Gemma 2 9B vs GPT-6.1 Sol

GPT-6.1 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 65.6 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2 9B Google

25.9

Rank #341 Confirmed

GPT-6.1 Sol OpenAI

65.6

Rank #6 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 9B scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-6.1 Sol in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-6.1 Sol leads 93.7 to 9.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 0.6% for Gemma 2 9B and 100% for GPT-6.1 Sol.
  • Gemma 2 9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 2 9BGPT-6.1 Sol
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index25.965.6
Released2024-06-242026-09-29
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$10
Results tracked3534

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Category by category

Coding GPT-6.1 Sol leads

Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304), GPT-6.1 Sol: 63.2 (#8)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-6.1 Sol
LMArena Coding11731487
DeepSWE—75.2%
FrontierCode—50.2%
LMArena WebDev—1755
SciCode—55.8%
BigCodeBench Instruct34.7%—
LiveBench Coding22.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete40.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: —, GPT-6.1 Sol: 39.6 (#26)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-6.1 Sol
APEX-Agents—60%
GDP.pdf—32%

Reasoning GPT-6.1 Sol leads

Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309), GPT-6.1 Sol: 81.9 (#2)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-6.1 Sol
LMArena Hard Prompts11711466
Epoch Capabilities Index119.83166.09
ARC-AGI-2—94.2%
NYT Connections (extended)—95.5%
ARC-AGI-1—98.5%
CritPt—31.7%
Chess Puzzles—61%
EBR-Bench—54.3%
LiveBench Reasoning15.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—80%
LiveBench Data Analysis36.4%—
LiveBench28.7%—
PIQA83.7%—

Math GPT-6.1 Sol leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318), GPT-6.1 Sol: 93.7 (#1)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-6.1 Sol
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250.6%100%
LMArena Math11831464
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—93.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4—100%
ProofBench—99%
LiveBench Math19.8%—
MATH Level 521%—
GSM8K84.9%—

Knowledge GPT-6.1 Sol leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305), GPT-6.1 Sol: 71.8 (#4)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-6.1 Sol
GPQA Diamond27.5%95.4%
LMArena Expert11471502
SimpleQA Verified—73.9%
BoolQ85.7%—
MMLU72.1%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: —, GPT-6.1 Sol: 52.7 (#5)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-6.1 Sol
LMArena Vision—1288
Furniture Assembly—80%

Multilingual GPT-6.1 Sol leads

Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238), GPT-6.1 Sol: 54.3 (#46)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-6.1 Sol
LMArena Non-English11881438
LMArena Chinese11851477
LMArena Russian12001455
LMArena French1190—
LMArena German1186—
LMArena Japanese1144—
LMArena Korean1137—
LMArena Spanish1200—

Instruction Following GPT-6.1 Sol leads

Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269), GPT-6.1 Sol: 77.0 (#29)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-6.1 Sol
LMArena Instruction Following11781468
LiveBench Instruction Following52.6%—

Long Context GPT-6.1 Sol leads

Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233), GPT-6.1 Sol: 44.9 (#54)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-6.1 Sol
LMArena Longer Query11971465

Writing & Preference GPT-6.1 Sol leads

Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281), GPT-6.1 Sol: 63.6 (#63)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-6.1 Sol
LMArena Text12071447
LMArena Creative Writing12061432
LMArena Multi-Turn11931449
EQ-Bench Creative Writing841—
LiveBench Language25.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 2 9B better than GPT-6.1 Sol?

GPT-6.1 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 65.6 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 2 9B or GPT-6.1 Sol better for coding?

GPT-6.1 Sol scores higher on coding benchmarks: 63.2 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 9B and GPT-6.1 Sol share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 9B has 35 scored results on Noometry and GPT-6.1 Sol has 34.

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