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Model comparison

Gemma 3 1B vs o4-mini

o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 1B Google

21.1

Rank #353 Reported

o4-mini OpenAI

41.6

Rank #132 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 1B scores higher in 0 categories and o4-mini in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where o4-mini leads 43.6 to 7.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 1.1% for Gemma 3 1B and 81.7% for o4-mini.
  • Gemma 3 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 3 1Bo4-mini
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index21.141.6
Released2025-03-122025-04-16
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—100K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.10
Output $ / M tokens—$4.40
Results tracked460

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, o4-mini: 40.9 (#127)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1Bo4-mini
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—45%
Aider Polyglot—72%
GSO—3.6%
WeirdML—52.6%
LMArena Coding—1368
CadEval—62%
ALE-Bench—826.17
AlgoTune—1.72

Agentic & Tool Use o4-mini leads

Gemma 3 1B: 13.7 (#152), o4-mini: 32.6 (#61)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1Bo4-mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard7.2%53.2%
GDPval—25.3%
METR Time Horizons—63.9%

Reasoning o4-mini leads

Gemma 3 1B: 19.2 (#264), o4-mini: 24.6 (#162)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1Bo4-mini
Chess Puzzles0%26%
ARC-AGI-2—6.1%
SimpleBench—38.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—67.6%
ARC-AGI-1—58.7%
CritPt—0.6%
EnigmaEval—9.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1351
Mystery Game Puzzles—5%
DTBench—77.6%
LMCA—26.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—145.64
ForecastBench—61.8

Math o4-mini leads

Gemma 3 1B: 10.2 (#316), o4-mini: 40.8 (#89)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1Bo4-mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.1%81.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—36.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4—4.9%
Omni-MATH—72%
LMArena Math—1389
MATH Level 5—97.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—24.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—6.3%

Knowledge o4-mini leads

Gemma 3 1B: 7.0 (#314), o4-mini: 43.6 (#91)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1Bo4-mini
GPQA Diamond19.9%79.6%
Humanity's Last Exam—18.1%
SimpleQA Verified—19.6%
MMLU-Pro—82%
Confabulations—15.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—18.6%
GPQA (HELM)—73.5%
LMArena Expert—1343

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, o4-mini: 40.2 (#49)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1Bo4-mini
LMArena Vision—1194
GeoBench—64%
VPCT—57.5%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, o4-mini: 47.0 (#154)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1Bo4-mini
LMArena Non-English—1337
LMArena Chinese—1354
LMArena French—1364
LMArena German—1336
LMArena Japanese—1308
LMArena Korean—1312
LMArena Russian—1334
LMArena Spanish—1347

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, o4-mini: 75.2 (#68)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1Bo4-mini
IFEval—92.8%
LMArena Instruction Following—1321

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, o4-mini: 45.5 (#33)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1Bo4-mini
Fiction.LiveBench—77.8%
LMArena Longer Query—1315

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, o4-mini: 54.0 (#152)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1Bo4-mini
LMArena Text—1353
LMArena Creative Writing—1294
Short-Story Creative Writing—75%
WildBench—85.4%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1350

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 1B better than o4-mini?

o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 1B and o4-mini share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 1B has 4 scored results on Noometry and o4-mini has 60.

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