Model comparison
Gemma 3 12B vs o1-pro
Gemma 3 12B and o1-pro score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.1 vs 31.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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GoogleSummary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where o1-pro leads 20.4 to 15.7.
- Gemma 3 12B is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $150 / $600 for o1-pro.
- o1-pro accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 131K.
- Gemma 3 12B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemma 3 12B | o1-pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | |
| Noometry Index | 32.1 | 31.5 |
| Released | 2025-03-12 | 2025-03-19 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 131K | 200K |
| Max output | 8K | 100K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.05 | $150 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.15 | $600 |
| Results tracked | 24 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Gemma 3 12B: 31.7 (#280), o1-pro: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 17.4% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1281 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemma 3 12B: 25.5 (#108), o1-pro: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 30.4% | — |
Reasoning o1-pro leads
Gemma 3 12B: 15.7 (#313), o1-pro: 20.4 (#239)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 23.3% |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| EnigmaEval | — | 6.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1309 | — |
| DTBench | 48.8% | — |
| LMCA | 4.5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 123.5 | — |
Math Not comparable
Gemma 3 12B: 22.3 (#279), o1-pro: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1307 | — |
Knowledge o1-pro leads
Gemma 3 12B: 26.5 (#257), o1-pro: 29.7 (#234)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 39.5% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 8.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 4.4% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1248 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemma 3 12B: —, o1-pro: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| MindCube | 46.7% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemma 3 12B: 45.7 (#165), o1-pro: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1318 | — |
| LMArena German | 1370 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1335 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemma 3 12B: 68.6 (#186), o1-pro: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1299 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemma 3 12B: 40.0 (#162), o1-pro: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1317 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Gemma 3 12B: 47.5 (#209), o1-pro: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | o1-pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1334 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1331 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1126 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1334 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 3 12B better than o1-pro?
Gemma 3 12B and o1-pro score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.1 vs 31.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Gemma 3 12B or o1-pro?
Gemma 3 12B is cheaper. It lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; o1-pro lists at $150 and $600.
Which has the bigger context window?
o1-pro does, with 200K tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 12B and o1-pro share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 12B has 24 scored results on Noometry and o1-pro has 3.