Model comparison

Gemma 7B vs GPT-4.1

GPT-4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 7B Google

30.0

Rank #299 Confirmed

GPT-4.1 OpenAI

35.9

Rank #219 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 2 categories and GPT-4.1 in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4.1 leads 57.6 to 27.1.
  • Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 7B and GPT-4.1 specifications
Gemma 7BGPT-4.1
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index30.035.9
Released2024-02-212025-04-14
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$8
Results tracked2752

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4.1 leads

Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294), GPT-4.1: 34.4 (#238)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4.1
LMArena Coding10481391
SWE-bench Verified—48.5%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—39.6%
Aider Polyglot—52.4%
WeirdML—39%
CadEval—42%
ALE-Bench—558.1
HumanEval+28.7%—
MBPP+43.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 7B: —, GPT-4.1: 34.7 (#43)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4.1
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—54%

Reasoning Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249), GPT-4.1: 11.7 (#339)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4.1
LMArena Hard Prompts10421384
Epoch Capabilities Index111.99136.78
ARC-AGI-2—0.4%
SimpleBench—27%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—52.3%
ARC-AGI-1—5.5%
Chess Puzzles—6%
EnigmaEval—2.2%
DTBench—68.3%
LMCA—25.6%
Adversarial NLI48.7%—
BIG-Bench Hard55.1%—
ForecastBench—61.5
HellaSwag82.2%—
PIQA81.2%—
WinoGrande79%—

Math Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228), GPT-4.1: 22.3 (#280)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4.1
LMArena Math10661370
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%
GSM8K46.4%—

Knowledge GPT-4.1 leads

Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252), GPT-4.1: 37.1 (#160)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4.1
LMArena Expert10011364
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%
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.3%—
BoolQ83.2%—
MMLU66.1%—
OpenBookQA78.6%—
TriviaQA72.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 7B: —, GPT-4.1: 38.2 (#67)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4.1
LMArena Vision—1211
GeoBench—72%

Multilingual GPT-4.1 leads

Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287), GPT-4.1: 49.4 (#133)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4.1
LMArena Non-English9991370
LMArena Chinese10351382
LMArena French10251382
LMArena Russian9931377
LMArena German—1381
LMArena Japanese—1319
LMArena Korean—1339
LMArena Spanish—1376

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 leads

Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295), GPT-4.1: 71.3 (#153)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4.1
LMArena Instruction Following10171367
IFEval—83.8%

Long Context GPT-4.1 leads

Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282), GPT-4.1: 40.0 (#163)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4.1
LMArena Longer Query10221385
Fiction.LiveBench—63.9%

Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 leads

Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302), GPT-4.1: 57.6 (#125)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4.1
LMArena Text10561383
LMArena Creative Writing10241363
LMArena Multi-Turn9631398
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1420
WildBench—85.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 7B better than GPT-4.1?

GPT-4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 7B or GPT-4.1 better for coding?

GPT-4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and GPT-4.1 share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 has 52.

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