Model comparison

Gemma 7B vs GPT-5.6 Luna

GPT-5.6 Luna is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 7B Google

29.5

Rank #295 Confirmed

GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI

54.7

Rank #24 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.6 Luna in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.6 Luna leads 77.5 to 28.7.
  • Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 7B and GPT-5.6 Luna specifications
Gemma 7BGPT-5.6 Luna
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index29.554.7
Released2024-02-212026-07-09
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.20
Output $ / M tokens—$1.20
Results tracked2751

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.6 Luna leads

Gemma 7B: 29.9 (#290), GPT-5.6 Luna: 53.9 (#25)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Coding10481466
DeepSWE—67.2%
FrontierCode—39.8%
CursorBench—35.9%
LMArena WebDev—1517
SciCode—53.6%
WeirdML—60.9%
ALE-Bench—1,667
HumanEval+28.7%—
MBPP+43.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 7B: —, GPT-5.6 Luna: 35.3 (#37)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5.6 Luna
BALROG—45.6%
GDP.pdf—22.7%
Vending-Bench 2—4,095

Reasoning GPT-5.6 Luna leads

Gemma 7B: 19.0 (#247), GPT-5.6 Luna: 47.5 (#38)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Hard Prompts10421452
Epoch Capabilities Index111.74156.32
ARC-AGI-2—59.5%
SimpleBench—46.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.1%
NYT Connections (extended)—69.4%
ARC-AGI-1—88%
CritPt—20.6%
Chess Puzzles—40%
Mystery Game Puzzles—21%
DTBench—89.1%
LMCA—48.5%
Surface Evolver Bench—61.9%
Adversarial NLI48.7%—
BIG-Bench Hard55.1%—
HellaSwag82.2%—
PIQA81.2%—
WinoGrande79%—

Math GPT-5.6 Luna leads

Gemma 7B: 28.7 (#225), GPT-5.6 Luna: 77.5 (#12)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Math10661455
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—82.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4—61%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—98.3%
ProofBench—60%
GSM8K46.4%—

Knowledge GPT-5.6 Luna leads

Gemma 7B: 26.8 (#248), GPT-5.6 Luna: 58.6 (#31)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Expert10021479
GPQA Diamond—91.6%
SimpleQA Verified—41%
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.3%—
BoolQ83.2%—
MMLU66.1%—
OpenBookQA78.6%—
TriviaQA72.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 7B: —, GPT-5.6 Luna: 43.0 (#22)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Vision—1259
Blueprint-Bench 2—22.6%
Furniture Assembly—42.5%
LMArena Document—1457

Multilingual GPT-5.6 Luna leads

Gemma 7B: 25.3 (#282), GPT-5.6 Luna: 53.0 (#73)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Non-English9991418
LMArena Chinese10351469
LMArena French10241457
LMArena Russian9931428
LMArena German—1459
LMArena Japanese—1416
LMArena Korean—1414
LMArena Spanish—1445

Instruction Following GPT-5.6 Luna leads

Gemma 7B: 51.7 (#290), GPT-5.6 Luna: 76.0 (#48)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Instruction Following10171440

Long Context GPT-5.6 Luna leads

Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#277), GPT-5.6 Luna: 43.9 (#78)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Longer Query10221437

Writing & Preference GPT-5.6 Luna leads

Gemma 7B: 27.2 (#297), GPT-5.6 Luna: 68.3 (#27)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Text10561432
LMArena Creative Writing10241397
LMArena Multi-Turn9631433
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1829
EQ-Bench 4—1156

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 7B better than GPT-5.6 Luna?

GPT-5.6 Luna is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 7B or GPT-5.6 Luna better for coding?

GPT-5.6 Luna scores higher on coding benchmarks: 53.9 versus 29.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and GPT-5.6 Luna share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.6 Luna has 51.

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