Model comparison

Gemma 3n E4b IT vs GPT-5.2

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 37.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3n E4b IT Google

37.3

Rank #206 Confirmed

GPT-5.2 OpenAI

54.1

Rank #34 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3n E4b IT scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.2 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.2 leads 50.2 to 19.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 31.5% for Gemma 3n E4b IT and 73.3% for GPT-5.2.
  • Gemma 3n E4b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 3n E4b IT and GPT-5.2 specifications
Gemma 3n E4b ITGPT-5.2
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index37.354.1
Released—2025-12-11
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.75
Output $ / M tokens—$14
Results tracked1867

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.2 leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 37.0 (#198), GPT-5.2: 51.6 (#37)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-5.2
LMArena Coding12681447
SWE-bench Verified—73.8%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—72.8%
LMArena WebDev—1416
SWE-bench Multilingual—66.7%
GSO—27.4%
WeirdML—72.2%
ALE-Bench—1,294
AlgoTune—2.05

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 3n E4b IT: —, GPT-5.2: 40.2 (#24)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-5.2
Terminal-Bench—64.9%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—55.9%
GDPval—49.7%
Remote Labor Index—2.5%
τ²-bench Airline—83%
τ²-bench Banking—32.2%
τ²-bench Retail—81.6%
τ²-bench Telecom—89.7%
DeepResearch Bench—41.1%
LMArena Search—1207
METR Time Horizons—75.3%
Vending-Bench 2—3,591

Reasoning GPT-5.2 leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 19.9 (#247), GPT-5.2: 50.2 (#35)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-5.2
Kagi LLM Benchmark31.5%73.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts12841445
ARC-AGI-2—52.9%
SimpleBench—45.8%
NYT Connections (extended)—83.6%
ARC-AGI-1—86.2%
Chess Puzzles—49%
EnigmaEval—10.4%
EBR-Bench—23%
Mystery Game Puzzles—23%
DTBench—90.9%
LMCA—43.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—153.45
ForecastBench—60.1

Math GPT-5.2 leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 35.1 (#188), GPT-5.2: 60.0 (#38)

Knowledge GPT-5.2 leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 34.2 (#198), GPT-5.2: 59.3 (#32)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-5.2
LMArena Expert12461445
GPQA Diamond—91.4%
Humanity's Last Exam—27.8%
SimpleQA Verified—37.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 3n E4b IT: —, GPT-5.2: 51.3 (#7)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-5.2
LMArena Vision—1268
VPCT—84%
Furniture Assembly—38.3%
LMArena Document—1405

Multilingual GPT-5.2 leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 43.4 (#183), GPT-5.2: 53.4 (#67)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-5.2
LMArena Non-English12851425
LMArena Chinese13091460
LMArena French13301455
LMArena German13111448
LMArena Japanese12721420
LMArena Korean12591392
LMArena Russian12881440
LMArena Spanish13051433

Instruction Following GPT-5.2 leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 66.1 (#210), GPT-5.2: 74.7 (#89)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-5.2
LMArena Instruction Following12551417

Long Context GPT-5.2 leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 38.7 (#191), GPT-5.2: 44.0 (#78)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-5.2
LMArena Longer Query12761428
CL-bench—18.2%

Writing & Preference GPT-5.2 leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 50.1 (#186), GPT-5.2: 66.8 (#32)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGPT-5.2
LMArena Text13061439
LMArena Creative Writing12871401
LMArena Multi-Turn12761458
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1703

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3n E4b IT better than GPT-5.2?

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 37.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 3n E4b IT or GPT-5.2 better for coding?

GPT-5.2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 37.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3n E4b IT and GPT-5.2 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3n E4b IT has 18 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.2 has 67.

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