Model comparison

Gemma 2B vs GPT-4 Turbo

Gemma 2B and GPT-4 Turbo score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.6 vs 30.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2B Google

29.6

Rank #307 Confirmed

GPT-4 Turbo OpenAI

30.5

Rank #292 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2B scores higher in 2 categories and GPT-4 Turbo in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4 Turbo leads 47.7 to 24.0.
  • Gemma 2B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 2B and GPT-4 Turbo specifications
Gemma 2BGPT-4 Turbo
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index29.630.5
Released2024-02-212023-11-06
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$10
Output $ / M tokens—$30
Results tracked2336

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4 Turbo leads

Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305), GPT-4 Turbo: 33.8 (#249)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Coding10101268
HumanEval+20.7%86.6%
MBPP+34.1%73.3%
WeirdML—18%
BigCodeBench Instruct—48.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—58.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 2B: —, GPT-4 Turbo: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4 Turbo
METR Time Horizons—36.7%

Reasoning Gemma 2B leads

Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275), GPT-4 Turbo: 15.3 (#317)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Hard Prompts9891251
Epoch Capabilities Index94.2127.25
SimpleBench—25.1%
Chess Puzzles—6%
DTBench—61.6%
LMCA—9.8%
BIG-Bench Hard35.2%—
ForecastBench—59.4
HellaSwag71.4%—
PIQA77.3%—
WinoGrande65.4%—

Math Gemma 2B leads

Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239), GPT-4 Turbo: 9.0 (#322)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Math10091272
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—0.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—6.7%
MATH Level 5—46.7%
GSM8K17.7%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemma 2B: —, GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#268)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4 Turbo
MMLU42.3%81.3%
GPQA Diamond—46.6%
Confabulations—28.4%
LMArena Expert—1223
ARC (AI2) Challenge42.1%—
BoolQ69.4%—
TriviaQA53.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 2B: —, GPT-4 Turbo: 30.6 (#110)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Vision—1090

Multilingual GPT-4 Turbo leads

Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294), GPT-4 Turbo: 40.5 (#216)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Non-English9581245
LMArena Chinese9861242
LMArena Russian9371259
LMArena French—1276
LMArena German—1259
LMArena Japanese—1194
LMArena Korean—1187
LMArena Spanish—1260

Instruction Following GPT-4 Turbo leads

Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302), GPT-4 Turbo: 65.8 (#216)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Instruction Following9701249

Long Context GPT-4 Turbo leads

Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291), GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#206)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Longer Query9811254

Writing & Preference GPT-4 Turbo leads

Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308), GPT-4 Turbo: 47.7 (#206)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Text10021272
LMArena Creative Writing9871269
LMArena Multi-Turn9451267

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 2B better than GPT-4 Turbo?

Gemma 2B and GPT-4 Turbo score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.6 vs 30.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemma 2B or GPT-4 Turbo better for coding?

GPT-4 Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 2B and GPT-4 Turbo share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4 Turbo has 36.

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