Model comparison

Gemma 3 1B vs Gemma 7B

Gemma 7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 11, 2026. 0 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 1B

Google

21.1

Rank #353 Reported

Gemma 7B

Google

30.0

Rank #299 Confirmed

Summary

The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 7B leads 31.2 to 10.2.

Side by side

Gemma 3 1B and Gemma 7B specifications
	Gemma 3 1B	Gemma 7B
Provider	Google	Google
Noometry Index	21.1	30.0
Released	2025-03-12	2024-02-21
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	—	—
Max output	—	—
Input $ / M tokens	—	—
Output $ / M tokens	—	—
Results tracked	4	27

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 1B	Gemma 7B
LMArena Coding	—	1048
HumanEval+	—	28.7%
MBPP+	—	43.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: 13.7 (#152), Gemma 7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 1B	Gemma 7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	7.2%	—

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemma 3 1B: 19.2 (#264), Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 1B	Gemma 7B
Chess Puzzles	0%	—
LMArena Hard Prompts	—	1042
Adversarial NLI	—	48.7%
BIG-Bench Hard	—	55.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index	—	111.99
HellaSwag	—	82.2%
PIQA	—	81.2%
WinoGrande	—	79%

Math Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 3 1B: 10.2 (#316), Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 1B	Gemma 7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	1.1%	—
LMArena Math	—	1066
GSM8K	—	46.4%

Knowledge Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 3 1B: 7.0 (#314), Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 1B	Gemma 7B
GPQA Diamond	19.9%	—
LMArena Expert	—	1001
ARC (AI2) Challenge	—	78.3%
BoolQ	—	83.2%
MMLU	—	66.1%
OpenBookQA	—	78.6%
TriviaQA	—	72.3%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 1B	Gemma 7B
LMArena Non-English	—	999
LMArena Chinese	—	1035
LMArena French	—	1025
LMArena Russian	—	993

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 1B	Gemma 7B
LMArena Instruction Following	—	1017

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 1B	Gemma 7B
LMArena Longer Query	—	1022

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 1B	Gemma 7B
LMArena Text	—	1056
LMArena Creative Writing	—	1024
LMArena Multi-Turn	—	963

Frequently asked questions

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