Model comparison
Gemma 3 1B vs Grok 4
Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 1B scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 4 in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok 4 leads 53.8 to 7.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 1.1% for Gemma 3 1B and 84% for Grok 4.
- Gemma 3 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemma 3 1B | Grok 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | |
| Noometry Index | 21.1 | 48.1 |
| Released | 2025-03-12 | 2025-07-09 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 4 | 48 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Gemma 3 1B: —, Grok 4: 50.3 (#46)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 79.6% |
| WeirdML | — | 45.7% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1408 |
Agentic & Tool Use Grok 4 leads
Gemma 3 1B: 13.7 (#152), Grok 4: 32.3 (#68)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 7.2% | 63% |
| Terminal-Bench | — | 27.2% |
| GDPval | — | 21.1% |
| Cybench | — | 43% |
| DeepResearch Bench | — | 47.3% |
| BALROG | — | 43.6% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1142 |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 66.6% |
Reasoning Grok 4 leads
Gemma 3 1B: 19.2 (#264), Grok 4: 36.7 (#65)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | 28% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 16% |
| SimpleBench | — | 60.5% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 73.6% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 66.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1409 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 146.44 |
| ForecastBench | — | 60.9 |
Math Grok 4 leads
Gemma 3 1B: 10.2 (#316), Grok 4: 48.4 (#64)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.1% | 84% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 60.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1422 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 19.7% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 2.1% |
Knowledge Grok 4 leads
Gemma 3 1B: 7.0 (#314), Grok 4: 53.8 (#55)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 19.9% | 87% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 85.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 12.4% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 72.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1415 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemma 3 1B: —, Grok 4: 33.7 (#94)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1210 |
| GeoBench | — | 45% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemma 3 1B: —, Grok 4: 51.8 (#103)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1403 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1427 |
| LMArena French | — | 1418 |
| LMArena German | — | 1429 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1394 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1377 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1410 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1420 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemma 3 1B: —, Grok 4: 79.2 (#5)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 94.9% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1387 |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemma 3 1B: —, Grok 4: 63.1 (#4)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 94.4% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1409 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Gemma 3 1B: —, Grok 4: 58.5 (#116)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1411 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1397 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 76.9% |
| WildBench | — | 79.7% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1416 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 3 1B better than Grok 4?
Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 1B and Grok 4 share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 1B has 4 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4 has 48.