Model comparison

Gemma 7B vs GPT-5 Nano

GPT-5 Nano is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.5 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 7B Google

30.0

Rank #299 Confirmed

GPT-5 Nano OpenAI

33.5

Rank #241 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 2 categories and GPT-5 Nano in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where GPT-5 Nano leads 75.0 to 51.5.
  • Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 7B and GPT-5 Nano specifications
Gemma 7BGPT-5 Nano
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index30.033.5
Released2024-02-212025-08-07
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.05
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked2749

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 Nano leads

Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294), GPT-5 Nano: 33.6 (#254)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Coding10481351
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—34.8%
WeirdML—38.1%
ALE-Bench—718.67
HumanEval+28.7%—
MBPP+43.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 7B: —, GPT-5 Nano: 25.8 (#106)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5 Nano
Terminal-Bench—21.8%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—51.5%

Reasoning Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249), GPT-5 Nano: 16.3 (#306)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Hard Prompts10421328
Epoch Capabilities Index111.99139.38
ARC-AGI-2—2.6%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—62.2%
ARC-AGI-1—20.7%
Chess Puzzles—27%
Mystery Game Puzzles—9%
DTBench—62.7%
LMCA—7.9%
Adversarial NLI48.7%—
BIG-Bench Hard55.1%—
ForecastBench—59.1
HellaSwag82.2%—
PIQA81.2%—
WinoGrande79%—

Math Gemma 7B leads

Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228), GPT-5 Nano: 29.4 (#241)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Math10661317
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—20%
FrontierMath Tier 4—2.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—81.1%
ProofBench—12%
Omni-MATH—54.6%
MATH Level 5—95.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—8.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%
GSM8K46.4%—

Knowledge GPT-5 Nano leads

Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252), GPT-5 Nano: 35.9 (#178)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Expert10011321
GPQA Diamond—69.4%
SimpleQA Verified—11.7%
MMLU-Pro—77.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.5%
GPQA (HELM)—67.9%
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.3%—
BoolQ83.2%—
MMLU66.1%—
OpenBookQA78.6%—
TriviaQA72.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 7B: —, GPT-5 Nano: 31.3 (#108)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Vision—1159
VPCT—37.2%

Multilingual GPT-5 Nano leads

Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287), GPT-5 Nano: 45.3 (#172)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Non-English9991313
LMArena Chinese10351356
LMArena Russian9931296
LMArena French1025—
LMArena German—1327
LMArena Japanese—1226
LMArena Korean—1269
LMArena Spanish—1360

Instruction Following GPT-5 Nano leads

Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295), GPT-5 Nano: 75.0 (#79)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Instruction Following10171306
IFEval—93.2%

Long Context Too close to call

Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282), GPT-5 Nano: 31.3 (#281)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Longer Query10221312
Fiction.LiveBench—44.4%

Writing & Preference GPT-5 Nano leads

Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302), GPT-5 Nano: 39.1 (#249)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Text10561320
LMArena Creative Writing10241249
LMArena Multi-Turn9631311
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—705
WildBench—80.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 7B better than GPT-5 Nano?

GPT-5 Nano is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.5 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 7B or GPT-5 Nano better for coding?

GPT-5 Nano scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.6 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and GPT-5 Nano share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5 Nano has 49.

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