Model comparison

Gemma 7B vs o4-mini

o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 7B Google

30.0

Rank #299 Confirmed

o4-mini OpenAI

41.6

Rank #132 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 0 categories and o4-mini in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where o4-mini leads 54.0 to 27.1.
  • Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 7B and o4-mini specifications
Gemma 7Bo4-mini
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index30.041.6
Released2024-02-212025-04-16
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—100K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.10
Output $ / M tokens—$4.40
Results tracked2760

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Category by category

Coding o4-mini leads

Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294), o4-mini: 40.9 (#127)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7Bo4-mini
LMArena Coding10481368
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—45%
Aider Polyglot—72%
GSO—3.6%
WeirdML—52.6%
CadEval—62%
ALE-Bench—826.17
AlgoTune—1.72
HumanEval+28.7%—
MBPP+43.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 7B: —, o4-mini: 32.6 (#61)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7Bo4-mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—53.2%
GDPval—25.3%
METR Time Horizons—63.9%

Reasoning o4-mini leads

Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249), o4-mini: 24.6 (#162)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7Bo4-mini
LMArena Hard Prompts10421351
Epoch Capabilities Index111.99145.64
ARC-AGI-2—6.1%
SimpleBench—38.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—67.6%
ARC-AGI-1—58.7%
CritPt—0.6%
Chess Puzzles—26%
EnigmaEval—9.2%
Mystery Game Puzzles—5%
DTBench—77.6%
LMCA—26.5%
Adversarial NLI48.7%—
BIG-Bench Hard55.1%—
ForecastBench—61.8
HellaSwag82.2%—
PIQA81.2%—
WinoGrande79%—

Math o4-mini leads

Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228), o4-mini: 40.8 (#89)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7Bo4-mini
LMArena Math10661389
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—36.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4—4.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—81.7%
Omni-MATH—72%
MATH Level 5—97.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—24.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—6.3%
GSM8K46.4%—

Knowledge o4-mini leads

Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252), o4-mini: 43.6 (#91)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7Bo4-mini
LMArena Expert10011343
GPQA Diamond—79.6%
Humanity's Last Exam—18.1%
SimpleQA Verified—19.6%
MMLU-Pro—82%
Confabulations—15.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—18.6%
GPQA (HELM)—73.5%
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.3%—
BoolQ83.2%—
MMLU66.1%—
OpenBookQA78.6%—
TriviaQA72.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 7B: —, o4-mini: 40.2 (#49)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7Bo4-mini
LMArena Vision—1194
GeoBench—64%
VPCT—57.5%

Multilingual o4-mini leads

Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287), o4-mini: 47.0 (#154)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7Bo4-mini
LMArena Non-English9991337
LMArena Chinese10351354
LMArena French10251364
LMArena Russian9931334
LMArena German—1336
LMArena Japanese—1308
LMArena Korean—1312
LMArena Spanish—1347

Instruction Following o4-mini leads

Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295), o4-mini: 75.2 (#68)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7Bo4-mini
LMArena Instruction Following10171321
IFEval—92.8%

Long Context o4-mini leads

Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282), o4-mini: 45.5 (#33)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7Bo4-mini
LMArena Longer Query10221315
Fiction.LiveBench—77.8%

Writing & Preference o4-mini leads

Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302), o4-mini: 54.0 (#152)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7Bo4-mini
LMArena Text10561353
LMArena Creative Writing10241294
LMArena Multi-Turn9631350
Short-Story Creative Writing—75%
WildBench—85.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 7B better than o4-mini?

o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 7B or o4-mini better for coding?

o4-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.9 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and o4-mini share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and o4-mini has 60.

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