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Model comparison

Gemma 7B vs GPT-4o

Gemma 7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 7B Google

30.0

Rank #299 Confirmed

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 3 categories and GPT-4o in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4o leads 52.6 to 27.1.
  • Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 7BGPT-4o
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index30.028.6
Released2024-02-212024-05-13
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—128K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$2.50
Output $ / M tokens—$10
Results tracked2772

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294), GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328)

BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4o
LMArena Coding10481297
HumanEval+28.7%87.2%
MBPP+43.4%72.2%
SWE-bench Verified—31%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21.6%
Aider Polyglot—45.3%
GSO—0%
WeirdML—25.1%
BigCodeBench Instruct—51.1%
LiveBench Coding—51.4%
BigCodeBench Complete—61.1%
CadEval—26%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 7B: —, GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141)

BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4o
GDPval—9.9%
TheAgentCompany—8.6%
Cybench—12.5%
BALROG—32.3%
LMArena Search—1006
METR Time Horizons—40.8%

Reasoning Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249), GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343)

BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4o
LMArena Hard Prompts10421281
Epoch Capabilities Index111.99128.97
ARC-AGI-2—0%
SimpleBench—17.8%
ARC-AGI-1—4.5%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—13%
EnigmaEval—0.8%
LiveBench Reasoning—55.8%
DTBench—64.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis—60.9%
LMCA—16.6%
Adversarial NLI48.7%—
BIG-Bench Hard55.1%—
ForecastBench—57.7
HellaSwag82.2%—
LiveBench—55.3%
PIQA81.2%—
WinoGrande79%—

Math Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228), GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312)

BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4o
LMArena Math10661285
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—0.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—6.4%
Omni-MATH—29.3%
LiveBench Math—49.5%
MATH Level 5—53.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.3%
GSM8K46.4%—

Knowledge GPT-4o leads

Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252), GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242)

BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4o
LMArena Expert10011250
MMLU66.1%88.1%
GPQA Diamond—49.2%
Humanity's Last Exam—2.7%
SimpleQA Verified—26%
MMLU-Pro—71.3%
Confabulations—15.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.6%
GPQA (HELM)—52%
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.3%—
BoolQ83.2%—
OpenBookQA78.6%—
TriviaQA72.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 7B: —, GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91)

BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4o
LMArena Vision—1137
Video-MME—71.9%
GeoBench—71%
VPCT—40%
ScienceQA—88.5%

Multilingual GPT-4o leads

Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287), GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186)

BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4o
LMArena Non-English9991283
LMArena Chinese10351277
LMArena French10251304
LMArena Russian9931286
LMArena German—1282
LMArena Japanese—1257
LMArena Korean—1234
LMArena Spanish—1292

Instruction Following GPT-4o leads

Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295), GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207)

BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4o
LMArena Instruction Following10171278
LiveBench Instruction Following—68.6%
IFEval—81.7%

Long Context GPT-4o leads

Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282), GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179)

BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4o
LMArena Longer Query10221289
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%

Writing & Preference GPT-4o leads

Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302), GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166)

BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-4o
LMArena Text10561300
LMArena Creative Writing10241292
LMArena Multi-Turn9631302
Short-Story Creative Writing—81.8%
WildBench—82.8%
LiveBench Language—47.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 7B better than GPT-4o?

Gemma 7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 7B or GPT-4o better for coding?

Gemma 7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.5 versus 24.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and GPT-4o share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4o has 72.

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