# Gemma 2B vs GPT-5.6 Sol

> GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 65.0 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-2b-vs-gpt-5-6-sol
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 12

## Summary

- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2B scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.6 Sol in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.6 Sol leads 74.8 to 18.8.
- Gemma 2B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 2B | GPT-5.6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 29.6 | 65.0 |
| Rank | 307 | 7 |
| Context | — | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | — | $4 |
| Output $/M | — | $20 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305)
- GPT-5.6 Sol: 65.1 (#7)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | GPT-5.6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1010 | 1498 |
| DeepSWE | — | 72.7% |
| FrontierCode | — | 47.5% |
| CursorBench | — | 41.7% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1618 |
| FrontierSWE | — | 32.2% |
| SciCode | — | 57.1% |
| GSO | — | 76.5% |
| WeirdML | — | 89.4% |
| MirrorCode | — | 20% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 2,177 |
| HumanEval+ | 20.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 34.1% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemma 2B: —
- GPT-5.6 Sol: 50.3 (#7)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | GPT-5.6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 51.4% |
| OSWorld 2.0 | — | 27.3% |
| τ²-bench Banking | — | 46.9% |
| PostTrainBench | — | 36.2% |
| BALROG | — | 60% |
| GBAEval | — | 52.6% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 30.7% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1257 |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 9,619 |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275)
- GPT-5.6 Sol: 74.8 (#8)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | GPT-5.6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 989 | 1484 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 94.2 | 161.66 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 92.5% |
| SimpleBench | — | 71.7% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 67% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 93.8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 97.5% |
| CritPt | — | 32.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 64% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 37.1% |
| EBR-Bench | — | 44.8% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 58% |
| DTBench | — | 96% |
| LMCA | — | 59.2% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 93.1% |
| Bench to the Future 3 | — | 0.14 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 35.2% | — |
| HellaSwag | 71.4% | — |
| PIQA | 77.3% | — |
| WinoGrande | 65.4% | — |

## Math

- Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239)
- GPT-5.6 Sol: 85.6 (#9)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | GPT-5.6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1009 | 1474 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 89.1% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 82.9% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 100% |
| ProofBench | — | 83% |
| FrontierMath Erdős | — | 0% |
| GSM8K | 17.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 2B: —
- GPT-5.6 Sol: 64.3 (#18)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | GPT-5.6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 93.5% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 69.7% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 12.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1516 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.1% | — |
| BoolQ | 69.4% | — |
| MMLU | 42.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | 53.2% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemma 2B: —
- GPT-5.6 Sol: 48.6 (#9)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | GPT-5.6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1281 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 33.6% |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 56.7% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1483 |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294)
- GPT-5.6 Sol: 55.3 (#32)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | GPT-5.6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 958 | 1452 |
| LMArena Chinese | 986 | 1527 |
| LMArena Russian | 937 | 1468 |
| LMArena French | — | 1477 |
| LMArena German | — | 1476 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1471 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1442 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1441 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302)
- GPT-5.6 Sol: 77.7 (#16)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | GPT-5.6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 970 | 1482 |

## Long Context

- Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291)
- GPT-5.6 Sol: 45.4 (#42)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | GPT-5.6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 981 | 1480 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308)
- GPT-5.6 Sol: 73.3 (#12)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | GPT-5.6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1002 | 1457 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 987 | 1448 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 945 | 1460 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1972 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1250 |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 2B better than GPT-5.6 Sol?

GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 65.0 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemma 2B or GPT-5.6 Sol better for coding?

GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher on coding benchmarks: 65.1 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 2B and GPT-5.6 Sol share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.6 Sol has 65.