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Model comparison

Gemma 3 12B vs Grok 4

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 12B Google

32.1

Rank #262 Confirmed

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 12B scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 4 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok 4 leads 53.8 to 26.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 16.7% for Gemma 3 12B and 84% for Grok 4.
  • Gemma 3 12B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 3 12BGrok 4
ProviderGooglexAI
Noometry Index32.148.1
Released2025-03-122025-07-09
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window131K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.05—
Output $ / M tokens$0.15—
Results tracked2448

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Gemma 3 12B: 31.7 (#280), Grok 4: 50.3 (#46)

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BGrok 4
LMArena Coding12811408
Aider Polyglot—79.6%
SciCode17.4%—
WeirdML—45.7%

Agentic & Tool Use Grok 4 leads

Gemma 3 12B: 25.5 (#108), Grok 4: 32.3 (#68)

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BGrok 4
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard30.4%63%
Terminal-Bench—27.2%
GDPval—21.1%
Cybench—43%
DeepResearch Bench—47.3%
BALROG—43.6%
LMArena Search—1142
METR Time Horizons—66.6%

Reasoning Grok 4 leads

Gemma 3 12B: 15.7 (#313), Grok 4: 36.7 (#65)

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BGrok 4
Chess Puzzles0%28%
LMArena Hard Prompts13091409
Epoch Capabilities Index123.5146.44
ARC-AGI-2—16%
SimpleBench—60.5%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—73.6%
ARC-AGI-1—66.7%
CritPt0%—
DTBench48.8%—
LMCA4.5%—
ForecastBench—60.9

Math Grok 4 leads

Gemma 3 12B: 22.3 (#279), Grok 4: 48.4 (#64)

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BGrok 4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.7%84%
LMArena Math13071422
Omni-MATH—60.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—19.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Gemma 3 12B: 26.5 (#257), Grok 4: 53.8 (#55)

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BGrok 4
GPQA Diamond39.5%87%
LMArena Expert12481415
MMLU-Pro—85.1%
Confabulations—12.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate4.4%—
GPQA (HELM)—72.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 3 12B: —, Grok 4: 33.7 (#94)

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BGrok 4
LMArena Vision—1210
GeoBench—45%
MindCube46.7%—

Multilingual Grok 4 leads

Gemma 3 12B: 45.7 (#165), Grok 4: 51.8 (#103)

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BGrok 4
LMArena Non-English13181403
LMArena German13701429
LMArena Russian13351410
LMArena Chinese—1427
LMArena French—1418
LMArena Japanese—1394
LMArena Korean—1377
LMArena Spanish—1420

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Gemma 3 12B: 68.6 (#186), Grok 4: 79.2 (#5)

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BGrok 4
LMArena Instruction Following12991387
IFEval—94.9%

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Gemma 3 12B: 40.0 (#162), Grok 4: 63.1 (#4)

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BGrok 4
LMArena Longer Query13171409
Fiction.LiveBench—94.4%

Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads

Gemma 3 12B: 47.5 (#209), Grok 4: 58.5 (#116)

BenchmarkGemma 3 12BGrok 4
LMArena Text13341411
LMArena Creative Writing13311397
LMArena Multi-Turn13341416
Short-Story Creative Writing—76.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1126—
WildBench—79.7%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 12B better than Grok 4?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 3 12B or Grok 4 better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 31.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 12B and Grok 4 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 12B has 24 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4 has 48.

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