Noometry

Model comparison

Gemma 3 1B vs GPT-5.5

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 1B Google

21.1

Rank #353 Reported

GPT-5.5 OpenAI

63.4

Rank #9 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 1B scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.5 in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.5 leads 81.7 to 10.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 1.1% for Gemma 3 1B and 100% for GPT-5.5.
  • Gemma 3 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 3 1BGPT-5.5
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index21.163.4
Released2025-03-122026-04-23
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$5
Output $ / M tokens—$30
Results tracked471

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, GPT-5.5: 58.2 (#17)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-5.5
SWE-bench Verified—80.6%
DeepSWE—67%
FrontierCode—43%
LMArena WebDev—1513
SciCode—56.1%
GSO—40.2%
WeirdML—84.9%
LMArena Coding—1494
MirrorCode—10%
ALE-Bench—1,943

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.5 leads

Gemma 3 1B: 13.7 (#152), GPT-5.5: 50.7 (#6)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-5.5
Terminal-Bench—84.7%
APEX-Agents—55.1%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard7.2%—
OSWorld 2.0—13%
Remote Labor Index—6.3%
τ²-bench Banking—44.6%
DeepResearch Bench—54%
PostTrainBench—27.2%
ExploitBench—47.4%
GBAEval—53.2%
GDP.pdf—26%
LMArena Search—1242
Vending-Bench 2—7,524

Reasoning GPT-5.5 leads

Gemma 3 1B: 19.2 (#264), GPT-5.5: 72.8 (#11)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-5.5
Chess Puzzles0%54%
ARC-AGI-2—85%
SimpleBench—69%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—88.8%
NYT Connections (extended)—96.2%
ARC-AGI-1—95%
CritPt—27.1%
EBR-Bench—34.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1489
Mystery Game Puzzles—56%
DTBench—96%
LMCA—54.3%
Surface Evolver Bench—88.1%
Bench to the Future 3—0.14
Epoch Capabilities Index—159.1
ForecastBench—60.6

Math GPT-5.5 leads

Gemma 3 1B: 10.2 (#316), GPT-5.5: 81.7 (#11)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-5.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.1%100%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—85.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4—72.5%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—94.3%
ProofBench—50%
LMArena Math—1486
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—51.7%
FrontierMath Erdős—0%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—35.4%

Knowledge GPT-5.5 leads

Gemma 3 1B: 7.0 (#314), GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#17)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-5.5
GPQA Diamond19.9%94%
SimpleQA Verified—63%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%
LMArena Expert—1508

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, GPT-5.5: 46.9 (#12)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-5.5
LMArena Vision—1297
Blueprint-Bench 2—36.2%
Furniture Assembly—44.2%
LMArena Document—1486

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, GPT-5.5: 56.4 (#20)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-5.5
LMArena Non-English—1467
LMArena Chinese—1533
LMArena French—1486
LMArena German—1480
LMArena Japanese—1498
LMArena Korean—1460
LMArena Russian—1473
LMArena Spanish—1468

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, GPT-5.5: 77.5 (#18)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-5.5
LMArena Instruction Following—1479

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-5.5
CL-bench Life—22.2%
LMArena Longer Query—1484

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, GPT-5.5: 72.7 (#13)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-5.5
LMArena Text—1472
LMArena Creative Writing—1455
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1844
EQ-Bench 4—1315
LMArena Multi-Turn—1476

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 1B better than GPT-5.5?

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 1B and GPT-5.5 share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 1B has 4 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.5 has 71.

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