Model comparison

Gemma 3 1B vs GPT-4

GPT-4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.9 to 20.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 1B Google

20.7

Rank #348 Reported

GPT-4 OpenAI

28.9

Rank #308 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 1B scores higher in 1 category and GPT-4 in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-4 leads 18.4 to 7.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 19.9% for Gemma 3 1B and 35.7% for GPT-4.
  • Gemma 3 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 3 1B and GPT-4 specifications
Gemma 3 1BGPT-4
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index20.728.9
Released2025-03-122023-03-14
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—8K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$30
Output $ / M tokens—$60
Results tracked438

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, GPT-4: 31.2 (#277)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-4
WeirdML—12.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct—46%
LMArena Coding—1254
BigCodeBench Complete—57.2%
HumanEval+—79.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: 13.5 (#144), GPT-4: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-4
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard7.2%—
METR Time Horizons—36.1%

Reasoning Gemma 3 1B leads

Gemma 3 1B: 18.5 (#260), GPT-4: 17.3 (#285)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-4
Chess Puzzles0%4%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1241
Mystery Game Puzzles—12%
DTBench—62.7%
LMCA—17.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—75.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—125.88
ForecastBench—57.8
HellaSwag—95.3%
WinoGrande—87.5%

Math Too close to call

Gemma 3 1B: 9.6 (#310), GPT-4: 10.1 (#304)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.1%1.1%
LMArena Math—1269
MATH Level 5—23%
GSM8K—92%

Knowledge GPT-4 leads

Gemma 3 1B: 7.1 (#309), GPT-4: 18.4 (#277)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-4
GPQA Diamond19.9%35.7%
LMArena Expert—1211
MMLU—86.4%
TriviaQA—84.8%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, GPT-4: 40.8 (#210)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-4
LMArena Non-English—1246
LMArena Chinese—1242
LMArena French—1282
LMArena German—1251
LMArena Japanese—1209
LMArena Korean—1184
LMArena Russian—1251
LMArena Spanish—1261

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, GPT-4: 65.5 (#217)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-4
LMArena Instruction Following—1241

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, GPT-4: 37.7 (#207)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-4
LMArena Longer Query—1244

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, GPT-4: 35.0 (#263)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-4
LMArena Text—1263
LMArena Creative Writing—1244
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—752
LMArena Multi-Turn—1257

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 1B better than GPT-4?

GPT-4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.9 to 20.7 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 1B and GPT-4 share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 1B has 4 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4 has 38.

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