Noometry

Model comparison

Gemma 2B vs GPT-4.1

GPT-4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2B Google

29.6

Rank #307 Confirmed

GPT-4.1 OpenAI

35.9

Rank #219 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2B scores higher in 2 categories and GPT-4.1 in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4.1 leads 57.6 to 24.0.
  • Gemma 2B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 2BGPT-4.1
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index29.635.9
Released2024-02-212025-04-14
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$8
Results tracked2352

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4.1 leads

Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305), GPT-4.1: 34.4 (#238)

BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4.1
LMArena Coding10101391
SWE-bench Verified—48.5%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—39.6%
Aider Polyglot—52.4%
WeirdML—39%
CadEval—42%
ALE-Bench—558.1
HumanEval+20.7%—
MBPP+34.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 2B: —, GPT-4.1: 34.7 (#43)

BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4.1
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—54%

Reasoning Gemma 2B leads

Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275), GPT-4.1: 11.7 (#339)

BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4.1
LMArena Hard Prompts9891384
Epoch Capabilities Index94.2136.78
ARC-AGI-2—0.4%
SimpleBench—27%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—52.3%
ARC-AGI-1—5.5%
Chess Puzzles—6%
EnigmaEval—2.2%
DTBench—68.3%
LMCA—25.6%
BIG-Bench Hard35.2%—
ForecastBench—61.5
HellaSwag71.4%—
PIQA77.3%—
WinoGrande65.4%—

Math Gemma 2B leads

Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239), GPT-4.1: 22.3 (#280)

BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4.1
LMArena Math10091370
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—38.3%
Omni-MATH—47.1%
MATH Level 5—83%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—5.5%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%
GSM8K17.7%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemma 2B: —, GPT-4.1: 37.1 (#160)

BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4.1
GPQA Diamond—66.9%
Humanity's Last Exam—5.4%
SimpleQA Verified—31.1%
MMLU-Pro—81.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.6%
GPQA (HELM)—65.9%
LMArena Expert—1364
ARC (AI2) Challenge42.1%—
BoolQ69.4%—
MMLU42.3%—
TriviaQA53.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 2B: —, GPT-4.1: 38.2 (#67)

BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4.1
LMArena Vision—1211
GeoBench—72%

Multilingual GPT-4.1 leads

Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294), GPT-4.1: 49.4 (#133)

BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4.1
LMArena Non-English9581370
LMArena Chinese9861382
LMArena Russian9371377
LMArena French—1382
LMArena German—1381
LMArena Japanese—1319
LMArena Korean—1339
LMArena Spanish—1376

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 leads

Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302), GPT-4.1: 71.3 (#153)

BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4.1
LMArena Instruction Following9701367
IFEval—83.8%

Long Context GPT-4.1 leads

Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291), GPT-4.1: 40.0 (#163)

BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4.1
LMArena Longer Query9811385
Fiction.LiveBench—63.9%

Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 leads

Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308), GPT-4.1: 57.6 (#125)

BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4.1
LMArena Text10021383
LMArena Creative Writing9871363
LMArena Multi-Turn9451398
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1420
WildBench—85.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 2B better than GPT-4.1?

GPT-4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

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

GPT-4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

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

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 has 52.

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