Model comparison
Gemma 3 4B vs o1-mini
o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 4B scores higher in 2 categories and o1-mini in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where o1-mini leads 34.8 to 11.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 7.5% for Gemma 3 4B and 46.9% for o1-mini.
- Gemma 3 4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemma 3 4B | o1-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | |
| Noometry Index | 27.9 | 33.7 |
| Released | 2025-03-12 | 2024-09-12 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 131K | — |
| Max output | 4K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.04 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.08 | — |
| Results tracked | 22 | 39 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Gemma 3 4B: 35.3 (#214), o1-mini: 35.1 (#218)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1230 | 1362 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 32.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 36.3% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 48% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 89% |
| MBPP+ | — | 78.8% |
Agentic & Tool Use o1-mini leads
Gemma 3 4B: 20.7 (#134), o1-mini: 24.3 (#112)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 19.6% | — |
| Cybench | — | 10% |
Reasoning Gemma 3 4B leads
Gemma 3 4B: 12.7 (#330), o1-mini: 8.9 (#340)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1253 | 1333 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 116.02 | 135.82 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.8% |
| SimpleBench | — | 18.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 25.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 14% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 72.3% |
| DTBench | 50.9% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 57.9% |
| LMCA | 2.8% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 57.8% |
Math o1-mini leads
Gemma 3 4B: 15.8 (#286), o1-mini: 33.7 (#168)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 7.5% | 46.9% |
| LMArena Math | 1239 | 1358 |
| LiveBench Math | — | 62% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 89.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |
Knowledge o1-mini leads
Gemma 3 4B: 11.8 (#294), o1-mini: 34.8 (#180)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 23.2% | 62.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1316 |
| Confabulations | — | 18.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.4% | — |
Multilingual o1-mini leads
Gemma 3 4B: 42.7 (#189), o1-mini: 43.8 (#177)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1273 | 1289 |
| LMArena German | 1281 | 1278 |
| LMArena Russian | 1294 | 1283 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1314 |
| LMArena French | — | 1292 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1245 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1223 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1302 |
Instruction Following o1-mini leads
Gemma 3 4B: 65.4 (#219), o1-mini: 67.0 (#200)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1239 | 1304 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 65.4% |
Long Context o1-mini leads
Gemma 3 4B: 38.6 (#189), o1-mini: 40.1 (#156)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1274 | 1321 |
Writing & Preference o1-mini leads
Gemma 3 4B: 42.2 (#234), o1-mini: 48.6 (#196)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 4B | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1291 | 1317 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1270 | 1244 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1255 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 64.9% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1068 | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 40.9% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 3 4B better than o1-mini?
o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemma 3 4B or o1-mini better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (35.3 vs 35.1); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 4B and o1-mini share?
15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 4B has 22 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.