Model comparison

Gemma 7B vs GPT-4.5

GPT-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.2 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 7B Google

30.0

Rank #299 Confirmed

GPT-4.5 OpenAI

37.2

Rank #208 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 1 category and GPT-4.5 in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4.5 leads 56.9 to 27.1.
  • Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 7B and GPT-4.5 specifications
Gemma 7BGPT-4.5
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index30.037.2
Released2024-02-212025-02-27
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked2742

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4.5 leads

Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294), GPT-4.5: 42.2 (#109)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4.5
LMArena Coding10481396
Aider Polyglot—44.9%
WeirdML—39.4%
LiveBench Coding—75.2%
HumanEval+28.7%—
MBPP+43.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 7B: —, GPT-4.5: 27.9 (#97)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4.5
Cybench—17.5%

Reasoning Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249), GPT-4.5: 13.9 (#330)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4.5
LMArena Hard Prompts10421403
Epoch Capabilities Index111.99136.74
ARC-AGI-2—0.8%
SimpleBench—34.5%
ARC-AGI-1—10.3%
EnigmaEval—3.2%
LiveBench Reasoning—71.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis—64.3%
Adversarial NLI48.7%—
BIG-Bench Hard55.1%—
ForecastBench—61.7
HellaSwag82.2%—
LiveBench—69%
PIQA81.2%—
WinoGrande79%—

Math GPT-4.5 leads

Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228), GPT-4.5: 32.6 (#211)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4.5
LMArena Math10661412
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—37.8%
LiveBench Math—69.3%
MATH Level 5—78.6%
GSM8K46.4%—

Knowledge GPT-4.5 leads

Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252), GPT-4.5: 32.5 (#211)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4.5
LMArena Expert10011394
GPQA Diamond—68.7%
Humanity's Last Exam—5.4%
Confabulations—13.6%
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.3%—
BoolQ83.2%—
MMLU66.1%—
OpenBookQA78.6%—
TriviaQA72.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 7B: —, GPT-4.5: 37.6 (#71)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4.5
LMArena Vision—1195
VPCT—45%

Multilingual GPT-4.5 leads

Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287), GPT-4.5: 52.5 (#83)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4.5
LMArena Non-English9991413
LMArena Chinese10351421
LMArena French10251418
LMArena Russian9931419
LMArena German—1457
LMArena Japanese—1416
LMArena Korean—1392

Instruction Following GPT-4.5 leads

Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295), GPT-4.5: 72.6 (#134)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4.5
LMArena Instruction Following10171404
LiveBench Instruction Following—72.3%

Long Context GPT-4.5 leads

Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282), GPT-4.5: 40.4 (#155)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4.5
LMArena Longer Query10221406
Fiction.LiveBench—63.9%

Writing & Preference GPT-4.5 leads

Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302), GPT-4.5: 56.9 (#134)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4.5
LMArena Text10561417
LMArena Creative Writing10241394
LMArena Multi-Turn9631444
Short-Story Creative Writing—75.6%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1258
LiveBench Language—61.5%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 7B better than GPT-4.5?

GPT-4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.2 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 7B or GPT-4.5 better for coding?

GPT-4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.2 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and GPT-4.5 share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.5 has 42.

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