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Model comparison

Gemma 2 9B vs GPT-6 Sol

GPT-6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2 9B Google

25.9

Rank #341 Confirmed

GPT-6 Sol OpenAI

61.8

Rank #12 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 9B scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-6 Sol in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-6 Sol leads 87.2 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 Sol.
  • Gemma 2 9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 2 9BGPT-6 Sol
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index25.961.8
Released2024-06-242026-09-22
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$10
Results tracked3545

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Category by category

Coding GPT-6 Sol leads

Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304), GPT-6 Sol: 60.1 (#11)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-6 Sol
LMArena Coding11731447
DeepSWE—68.8%
FrontierCode—49.3%
LMArena WebDev—1688
SciCode—57.6%
BigCodeBench Instruct34.7%—
LiveBench Coding22.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete40.6%—
ALE-Bench—2,462

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: —, GPT-6 Sol: 37.2 (#36)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-6 Sol
APEX-Agents—54.3%
GDP.pdf—26.4%
Vending-Bench 2—14,428

Reasoning GPT-6 Sol leads

Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309), GPT-6 Sol: 74.0 (#9)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-6 Sol
LMArena Hard Prompts11711418
Epoch Capabilities Index119.83162.72
ARC-AGI-2—89.6%
NYT Connections (extended)—90.1%
ARC-AGI-1—95.5%
CritPt—30.9%
EBR-Bench—53.3%
LiveBench Reasoning15.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—56%
DTBench—97.3%
LiveBench Data Analysis36.4%—
LMCA—59.1%
LiveBench28.7%—
PIQA83.7%—

Math GPT-6 Sol leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318), GPT-6 Sol: 87.2 (#7)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-6 Sol
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250.6%100%
LMArena Math11831402
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—89.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4—90%
ProofBench—83%
LiveBench Math19.8%—
MATH Level 521%—
GSM8K84.9%—

Knowledge GPT-6 Sol leads

Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305), GPT-6 Sol: 64.8 (#15)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-6 Sol
GPQA Diamond27.5%94.3%
LMArena Expert11471439
SimpleQA Verified—60.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—6.5%
BoolQ85.7%—
MMLU72.1%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 2 9B: —, GPT-6 Sol: 47.6 (#10)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-6 Sol
LMArena Vision—1245
Blueprint-Bench 2—36.9%
Furniture Assembly—58.3%

Multilingual GPT-6 Sol leads

Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238), GPT-6 Sol: 50.5 (#118)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-6 Sol
LMArena Non-English11881385
LMArena Chinese11851405
LMArena French11901410
LMArena German11861390
LMArena Japanese11441385
LMArena Korean11371341
LMArena Russian12001401
LMArena Spanish12001384

Instruction Following GPT-6 Sol leads

Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269), GPT-6 Sol: 74.5 (#94)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-6 Sol
LMArena Instruction Following11781412
LiveBench Instruction Following52.6%—

Long Context GPT-6 Sol leads

Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233), GPT-6 Sol: 43.1 (#108)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-6 Sol
LMArena Longer Query11971411

Writing & Preference GPT-6 Sol leads

Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281), GPT-6 Sol: 71.9 (#18)

BenchmarkGemma 2 9BGPT-6 Sol
LMArena Text12071395
LMArena Creative Writing12061378
EQ-Bench Creative Writing8412125
LMArena Multi-Turn11931412
LiveBench Language25.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 2 9B better than GPT-6 Sol?

GPT-6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 2 9B or GPT-6 Sol better for coding?

GPT-6 Sol scores higher on coding benchmarks: 60.1 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 9B and GPT-6 Sol share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 9B has 35 scored results on Noometry and GPT-6 Sol has 45.

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