Model comparison
Gemma 3 1B vs o1
o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 1B scores higher in 0 categories and o1 in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where o1 leads 41.5 to 7.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 1.1% for Gemma 3 1B and 73.3% for o1.
- Gemma 3 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemma 3 1B | o1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | |
| Noometry Index | 21.1 | 40.9 |
| Released | 2025-03-12 | 2024-09-12 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 200K |
| Max output | — | 100K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $60 |
| Results tracked | 4 | 52 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Gemma 3 1B: —, o1: 46.1 (#70)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 61.7% |
| WeirdML | — | 47.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 69.7% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1367 |
| CadEval | — | 56% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 89% |
| MBPP+ | — | 80.2% |
Agentic & Tool Use o1 leads
Gemma 3 1B: 13.7 (#152), o1: 24.6 (#117)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 7.2% | — |
| Cybench | — | 10% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 51.1% |
Reasoning o1 leads
Gemma 3 1B: 19.2 (#264), o1: 27.9 (#111)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | 15% |
| SimpleBench | — | 41.7% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 30.7% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 5.7% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 91.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1371 |
| DTBench | — | 74.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65.5% |
| LMCA | — | 22.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 141.91 |
| LiveBench | — | 75.7% |
Math o1 leads
Gemma 3 1B: 10.2 (#316), o1: 36.1 (#175)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.1% | 73.3% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 14.7% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 80.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1388 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 94.7% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 9.3% |
Knowledge o1 leads
Gemma 3 1B: 7.0 (#314), o1: 41.5 (#110)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 19.9% | 76.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 41.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 11.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1361 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemma 3 1B: —, o1: 34.2 (#93)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1168 |
| GeoBench | — | 80% |
| VPCT | — | 37% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 41.4% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemma 3 1B: —, o1: 48.6 (#142)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1358 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1394 |
| LMArena French | — | 1344 |
| LMArena German | — | 1337 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1346 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1396 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1356 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1345 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Gemma 3 1B: —, o1: 74.8 (#86)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.5% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1367 |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemma 3 1B: —, o1: 50.3 (#9)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1378 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Gemma 3 1B: —, o1: 55.6 (#144)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 1B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1366 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1348 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 70.2% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1369 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 65.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 3 1B better than o1?
o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 1B and o1 share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 1B has 4 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.