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Model comparison

Gemma 3n E4b IT vs GPT-4.1 mini

Gemma 3n E4b IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 33.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3n E4b IT Google

37.3

Rank #206 Confirmed

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.6

Rank #240 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3n E4b IT scores higher in 5 categories and GPT-4.1 mini in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 3n E4b IT leads 35.1 to 24.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 31.5% for Gemma 3n E4b IT and 48.6% for GPT-4.1 mini.
  • Gemma 3n E4b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 3n E4b ITGPT-4.1 mini
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index37.333.6
Released—2025-04-14
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$1.60
Results tracked1847

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 3n E4b IT leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 37.0 (#198), GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293)

BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Coding12681367
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—23.9%
Aider Polyglot—32.4%
SciCode—40.4%
WeirdML—37.6%
BigCodeBench Instruct—48.9%
CadEval—16%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 3n E4b IT: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55)

BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-4.1 mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—50.5%

Reasoning Gemma 3n E4b IT leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 19.9 (#247), GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340)

BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-4.1 mini
Kagi LLM Benchmark31.5%48.6%
LMArena Hard Prompts12841349
ARC-AGI-2—0%
ARC-AGI-1—3.5%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—7%
Mystery Game Puzzles—7%
DTBench—68.8%
LMCA—21.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—135.01

Math Gemma 3n E4b IT leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 35.1 (#188), GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270)

BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Math12511343
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—6.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—44.7%
Omni-MATH—49.1%
MATH Level 5—87.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—4.5%

Knowledge Too close to call

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 34.2 (#198), GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194)

BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Expert12461338
GPQA Diamond—65.8%
SimpleQA Verified—12.7%
MMLU-Pro—78.3%
GPQA (HELM)—61.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 3n E4b IT: —, GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82)

BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Vision—1181

Multilingual GPT-4.1 mini leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 43.4 (#183), GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166)

BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Non-English12851318
LMArena Chinese13091329
LMArena French13301358
LMArena German13111351
LMArena Japanese12721290
LMArena Korean12591298
LMArena Russian12881324
LMArena Spanish13051319

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 mini leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 66.1 (#210), GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118)

BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Instruction Following12551333
IFEval—90.4%

Long Context Gemma 3n E4b IT leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 38.7 (#191), GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275)

BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Longer Query12761344
Fiction.LiveBench—44.4%

Writing & Preference Gemma 3n E4b IT leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 50.1 (#186), GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199)

BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-4.1 mini
LMArena Text13061340
LMArena Creative Writing12871300
LMArena Multi-Turn12761354
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1147
WildBench—83.8%

Frequently asked questions

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

Gemma 3n E4b IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 33.6 on the Noometry Index.

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

Gemma 3n E4b IT scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.0 versus 30.6 in the Noometry coding category.

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

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3n E4b IT has 18 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 mini has 47.

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