Model comparison

Gemma 3n E4b IT vs GPT-3.5-turbo

Gemma 3n E4b IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 23.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3n E4b IT Google

37.3

Rank #206 Confirmed

GPT-3.5-turbo OpenAI

23.2

Rank #350 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3n E4b IT scores higher in 8 categories and GPT-3.5-turbo in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 3n E4b IT leads 35.1 to 6.3.
  • Gemma 3n E4b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 3n E4b IT and GPT-3.5-turbo specifications
Gemma 3n E4b ITGPT-3.5-turbo
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index37.323.2
Released—2023-03-01
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—16K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$1.50
Results tracked1844

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 3n E4b IT leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 37.0 (#198), GPT-3.5-turbo: 23.9 (#331)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Coding12681136
WeirdML—3.5%
BigCodeBench Instruct—39.1%
BigCodeBench Complete—50.6%
HumanEval+—70.7%
MBPP+—69.7%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 3n E4b IT: —, GPT-3.5-turbo: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-3.5-turbo
METR Time Horizons—21.5%

Reasoning Gemma 3n E4b IT leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 19.9 (#247), GPT-3.5-turbo: 13.8 (#332)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Hard Prompts12841108
Kagi LLM Benchmark31.5%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
Mystery Game Puzzles—3%
DTBench—48.5%
LMCA—9.7%
Adversarial NLI—58.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—61.6%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—57%
Epoch Capabilities Index—118.55
ForecastBench—50.4
WinoGrande—81.6%

Math Gemma 3n E4b IT leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 35.1 (#188), GPT-3.5-turbo: 6.3 (#327)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Math12511142
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—0%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—2.2%
MATH Level 5—15.9%
GSM8K—57.8%

Knowledge Gemma 3n E4b IT leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 34.2 (#198), GPT-3.5-turbo: 10.0 (#303)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Expert12461070
GPQA Diamond—28%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—87.4%
BoolQ—87%
MMLU—71.4%
OpenBookQA—86%
TriviaQA—85.8%

Multilingual Gemma 3n E4b IT leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 43.4 (#183), GPT-3.5-turbo: 31.5 (#258)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Non-English12851108
LMArena Chinese13091075
LMArena French13301118
LMArena German13111090
LMArena Japanese12721043
LMArena Korean12591019
LMArena Russian12881123
LMArena Spanish13051121

Instruction Following Gemma 3n E4b IT leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 66.1 (#210), GPT-3.5-turbo: 57.9 (#262)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Instruction Following12551119

Long Context Gemma 3n E4b IT leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 38.7 (#191), GPT-3.5-turbo: 34.0 (#254)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Longer Query12761121

Writing & Preference Gemma 3n E4b IT leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 50.1 (#186), GPT-3.5-turbo: 25.3 (#305)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Text13061125
LMArena Creative Writing12871092
LMArena Multi-Turn12761117
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—451

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3n E4b IT better than GPT-3.5-turbo?

Gemma 3n E4b IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 23.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 3n E4b IT or GPT-3.5-turbo better for coding?

Gemma 3n E4b IT scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.0 versus 23.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3n E4b IT and GPT-3.5-turbo share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3n E4b IT has 18 scored results on Noometry and GPT-3.5-turbo has 44.

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