Model comparison

Gemma 3 1B vs GPT-4o mini

GPT-4o mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 25.5 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 11, 2026. 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 1B

Google

21.1

Rank #353 Reported

GPT-4o mini OpenAI

25.5

Rank #343 Confirmed

Summary

They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 1B scores higher in 1 category and GPT-4o mini in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where GPT-4o mini leads 27.5 to 13.7.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 19.9% for Gemma 3 1B and 37.7% for GPT-4o mini.
Gemma 3 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 3 1B and GPT-4o mini specifications
	Gemma 3 1B	GPT-4o mini
Provider	Google	OpenAI
Noometry Index	21.1	25.5
Released	2025-03-12	2024-07-18
Weights	Open	Proprietary
Context window	—	128K
Max output	—	16K
Input $ / M tokens	—	$0.15
Output $ / M tokens	—	$0.60
Results tracked	4	60

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, GPT-4o mini: 22.0 (#335)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 1B	GPT-4o mini
Aider Polyglot	—	3.6%
WeirdML	—	11.8%
BigCodeBench Instruct	—	46.1%
LiveBench Coding	—	43.1%
LMArena Coding	—	1290
BigCodeBench Complete	—	57.4%
HumanEval+	—	83.5%
MBPP+	—	72.2%

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-4o mini leads

Gemma 3 1B: 13.7 (#152), GPT-4o mini: 27.5 (#101)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 1B	GPT-4o mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	7.2%	—
BALROG	—	17.4%

Reasoning Gemma 3 1B leads

Gemma 3 1B: 19.2 (#264), GPT-4o mini: 8.7 (#347)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 1B	GPT-4o mini
Chess Puzzles	0%	0%
ARC-AGI-2	—	0%
SimpleBench	—	10.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark	—	28.8%
LiveBench Reasoning	—	32.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts	—	1267
Mystery Game Puzzles	—	12%
DTBench	—	54.4%
LiveBench Data Analysis	—	50%
LMCA	—	10.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index	—	126.56
LiveBench	—	41.3%
PIQA	—	88.7%

Math Too close to call

Gemma 3 1B: 10.2 (#316), GPT-4o mini: 10.4 (#314)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 1B	GPT-4o mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	1.1%	6.9%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)	—	0.7%
Omni-MATH	—	28%
LiveBench Math	—	36.3%
LMArena Math	—	1267
MATH Level 5	—	52.6%
GSM8K	—	91.3%

Knowledge GPT-4o mini leads

Gemma 3 1B: 7.0 (#314), GPT-4o mini: 17.7 (#284)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 1B	GPT-4o mini
GPQA Diamond	19.9%	37.7%
SimpleQA Verified	—	8.3%
MMLU-Pro	—	60.3%
Confabulations	—	37.2%
GPQA (HELM)	—	36.8%
LMArena Expert	—	1235
BoolQ	—	88.7%
MMLU	—	81.8%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, GPT-4o mini: 25.9 (#122)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 1B	GPT-4o mini
LMArena Vision	—	1066
Video-MME	—	64.8%
GeoBench	—	64%
VPCT	—	34%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, GPT-4o mini: 42.0 (#199)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 1B	GPT-4o mini
LMArena Non-English	—	1266
LMArena Chinese	—	1265
LMArena French	—	1297
LMArena German	—	1272
LMArena Japanese	—	1216
LMArena Korean	—	1195
LMArena Russian	—	1275
LMArena Spanish	—	1276

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, GPT-4o mini: 61.9 (#239)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 1B	GPT-4o mini
LiveBench Instruction Following	—	56.8%
IFEval	—	78.2%
LMArena Instruction Following	—	1258

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, GPT-4o mini: 39.1 (#186)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 1B	GPT-4o mini
LMArena Longer Query	—	1289

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, GPT-4o mini: 39.5 (#248)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 1B	GPT-4o mini
LMArena Text	—	1286
LMArena Creative Writing	—	1268
Short-Story Creative Writing	—	67.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	—	873
WildBench	—	79.1%
LMArena Multi-Turn	—	1285
LiveBench Language	—	28.6%

Frequently asked questions

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