Noometry

Model comparison

Gemma 3 4B vs GPT-5.5 Instant

GPT-5.5 Instant is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 4B Google

27.9

Rank #320 Confirmed

GPT-5.5 Instant OpenAI

42.5

Rank #99 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 4B scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.5 Instant in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-5.5 Instant leads 48.9 to 11.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 7.5% for Gemma 3 4B and 68.1% for GPT-5.5 Instant.
  • Gemma 3 4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 3 4BGPT-5.5 Instant
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index27.942.5
Released2025-03-122026-05-05
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window131K—
Max output4K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.04—
Output $ / M tokens$0.08—
Results tracked2227

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.5 Instant leads

Gemma 3 4B: 35.3 (#214), GPT-5.5 Instant: 43.7 (#73)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGPT-5.5 Instant
LMArena Coding12301433
SciCode—48.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 3 4B: 20.7 (#134), GPT-5.5 Instant: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGPT-5.5 Instant
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard19.6%—

Reasoning GPT-5.5 Instant leads

Gemma 3 4B: 12.7 (#330), GPT-5.5 Instant: 24.2 (#149)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGPT-5.5 Instant
Chess Puzzles0%12%
LMArena Hard Prompts12531426
Epoch Capabilities Index116.02142.48
Kagi LLM Benchmark25.2%—
CritPt—0%
DTBench50.9%—
LMCA2.8%—

Math GPT-5.5 Instant leads

Gemma 3 4B: 15.8 (#286), GPT-5.5 Instant: 26.1 (#241)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGPT-5.5 Instant
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20257.5%68.1%
LMArena Math12391420
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—26.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4—2.4%

Knowledge GPT-5.5 Instant leads

Gemma 3 4B: 11.8 (#294), GPT-5.5 Instant: 48.9 (#68)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGPT-5.5 Instant
GPQA Diamond23.2%82.5%
LMArena Expert12231409
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 3 4B: —, GPT-5.5 Instant: 39.3 (#48)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGPT-5.5 Instant
LMArena Vision—1250
LMArena Document—1403

Multilingual GPT-5.5 Instant leads

Gemma 3 4B: 42.7 (#189), GPT-5.5 Instant: 53.0 (#76)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGPT-5.5 Instant
LMArena Non-English12731417
LMArena German12811410
LMArena Russian12941430
LMArena Chinese—1457
LMArena French—1428
LMArena Japanese—1408
LMArena Korean—1393
LMArena Spanish—1430

Instruction Following GPT-5.5 Instant leads

Gemma 3 4B: 65.4 (#219), GPT-5.5 Instant: 74.4 (#94)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGPT-5.5 Instant
LMArena Instruction Following12391407

Long Context GPT-5.5 Instant leads

Gemma 3 4B: 38.6 (#189), GPT-5.5 Instant: 43.4 (#92)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGPT-5.5 Instant
LMArena Longer Query12741422

Writing & Preference GPT-5.5 Instant leads

Gemma 3 4B: 42.2 (#234), GPT-5.5 Instant: 62.0 (#81)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGPT-5.5 Instant
LMArena Text12911419
LMArena Creative Writing12701420
LMArena Multi-Turn12551434
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1068—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 4B better than GPT-5.5 Instant?

GPT-5.5 Instant is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 3 4B or GPT-5.5 Instant better for coding?

GPT-5.5 Instant scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.7 versus 35.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 4B and GPT-5.5 Instant share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 4B has 22 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.5 Instant has 27.

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