Noometry

Model comparison

Gemma 2B vs GPT-4.1 mini

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.6 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2B Google

29.6

Rank #307 Confirmed

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.6

Rank #240 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2B scores higher in 2 categories and GPT-4.1 mini in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where GPT-4.1 mini leads 73.7 to 48.5.
  • Gemma 2B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 2BGPT-4.1 mini
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index29.633.6
Released2024-02-212025-04-14
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$1.60
Results tracked2347

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4.1 mini leads

Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305), GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293)

BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Coding10101367
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—23.9%
Aider Polyglot—32.4%
SciCode—40.4%
WeirdML—37.6%
BigCodeBench Instruct—48.9%
CadEval—16%
HumanEval+20.7%—
MBPP+34.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 2B: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55)

BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4.1 mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—50.5%

Reasoning Gemma 2B leads

Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275), GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340)

BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Hard Prompts9891349
Epoch Capabilities Index94.2135.01
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—48.6%
ARC-AGI-1—3.5%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—7%
Mystery Game Puzzles—7%
DTBench—68.8%
LMCA—21.1%
BIG-Bench Hard35.2%—
HellaSwag71.4%—
PIQA77.3%—
WinoGrande65.4%—

Math Gemma 2B leads

Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239), GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270)

BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Math10091343
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—6.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—44.7%
Omni-MATH—49.1%
MATH Level 5—87.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—4.5%
GSM8K17.7%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemma 2B: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194)

BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4.1 mini
GPQA Diamond—65.8%
SimpleQA Verified—12.7%
MMLU-Pro—78.3%
GPQA (HELM)—61.4%
LMArena Expert—1338
ARC (AI2) Challenge42.1%—
BoolQ69.4%—
MMLU42.3%—
TriviaQA53.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 2B: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82)

BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Vision—1181

Multilingual GPT-4.1 mini leads

Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294), GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166)

BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Non-English9581318
LMArena Chinese9861329
LMArena Russian9371324
LMArena French—1358
LMArena German—1351
LMArena Japanese—1290
LMArena Korean—1298
LMArena Spanish—1319

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 mini leads

Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302), GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118)

BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Instruction Following9701333
IFEval—90.4%

Long Context GPT-4.1 mini leads

Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291), GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275)

BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Longer Query9811344
Fiction.LiveBench—44.4%

Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 mini leads

Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308), GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199)

BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Text10021340
LMArena Creative Writing9871300
LMArena Multi-Turn9451354
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1147
WildBench—83.8%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 2B better than GPT-4.1 mini?

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.6 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

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

GPT-4.1 mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.6 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

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

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 mini has 47.

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