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Gemma 3n E4b IT vs GPT-4.1

Gemma 3n E4b IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3n E4b IT Google

37.3

Rank #206 Confirmed

GPT-4.1 OpenAI

35.9

Rank #219 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3n E4b IT scores higher in 3 categories and GPT-4.1 in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 3n E4b IT leads 35.1 to 22.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 31.5% for Gemma 3n E4b IT and 52.3% for GPT-4.1.
  • Gemma 3n E4b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 3n E4b ITGPT-4.1
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index37.335.9
Released—2025-04-14
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$8
Results tracked1852

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 3n E4b IT leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 37.0 (#198), GPT-4.1: 34.4 (#238)

BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-4.1
LMArena Coding12681391
SWE-bench Verified—48.5%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—39.6%
Aider Polyglot—52.4%
WeirdML—39%
CadEval—42%
ALE-Bench—558.1

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 3n E4b IT: —, GPT-4.1: 34.7 (#43)

BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-4.1
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—54%

Reasoning Gemma 3n E4b IT leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 19.9 (#247), GPT-4.1: 11.7 (#339)

BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-4.1
Kagi LLM Benchmark31.5%52.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts12841384
ARC-AGI-2—0.4%
SimpleBench—27%
ARC-AGI-1—5.5%
Chess Puzzles—6%
EnigmaEval—2.2%
DTBench—68.3%
LMCA—25.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index—136.78
ForecastBench—61.5

Math Gemma 3n E4b IT leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 35.1 (#188), GPT-4.1: 22.3 (#280)

BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-4.1
LMArena Math12511370
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—38.3%
Omni-MATH—47.1%
MATH Level 5—83%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—5.5%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge GPT-4.1 leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 34.2 (#198), GPT-4.1: 37.1 (#160)

BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-4.1
LMArena Expert12461364
GPQA Diamond—66.9%
Humanity's Last Exam—5.4%
SimpleQA Verified—31.1%
MMLU-Pro—81.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.6%
GPQA (HELM)—65.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 3n E4b IT: —, GPT-4.1: 38.2 (#67)

BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-4.1
LMArena Vision—1211
GeoBench—72%

Multilingual GPT-4.1 leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 43.4 (#183), GPT-4.1: 49.4 (#133)

BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-4.1
LMArena Non-English12851370
LMArena Chinese13091382
LMArena French13301382
LMArena German13111381
LMArena Japanese12721319
LMArena Korean12591339
LMArena Russian12881377
LMArena Spanish13051376

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 66.1 (#210), GPT-4.1: 71.3 (#153)

BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-4.1
LMArena Instruction Following12551367
IFEval—83.8%

Long Context GPT-4.1 leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 38.7 (#191), GPT-4.1: 40.0 (#163)

BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-4.1
LMArena Longer Query12761385
Fiction.LiveBench—63.9%

Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 50.1 (#186), GPT-4.1: 57.6 (#125)

BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-4.1
LMArena Text13061383
LMArena Creative Writing12871363
LMArena Multi-Turn12761398
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1420
WildBench—85.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3n E4b IT better than GPT-4.1?

Gemma 3n E4b IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 3n E4b IT or GPT-4.1 better for coding?

Gemma 3n E4b IT scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.0 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3n E4b IT and GPT-4.1 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3n E4b IT has 18 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 has 52.

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