# Gemma 7B vs GPT-4.1 mini

> GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.5 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-7b-vs-gpt-4-1-mini
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 14

## Summary

- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 2 categories and GPT-4.1 mini in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where GPT-4.1 mini leads 73.9 to 51.7.
- Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 7B | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 33.5 |
| Rank | 295 | 232 |
| Context | — | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | — | $0.40 |
| Output $/M | — | $1.60 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Gemma 7B: 29.9 (#290)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 30.4 (#286)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1048 | 1367 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 23.9% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 32.4% |
| SciCode | — | 40.4% |
| WeirdML | — | 37.6% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 48.9% |
| CadEval | — | 16% |
| HumanEval+ | 28.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 43.4% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemma 7B: —
- GPT-4.1 mini: 33.0 (#52)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 50.5% |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 7B: 19.0 (#247)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 10.9 (#335)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1042 | 1349 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.74 | 135.01 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 48.6% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 3.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 7% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 7% |
| DTBench | — | 68.8% |
| LMCA | — | 21.1% |
| Adversarial NLI | 48.7% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 55.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 82.2% | — |
| PIQA | 81.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 79% | — |

## Math

- Gemma 7B: 28.7 (#225)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 23.1 (#264)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1066 | 1343 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 6.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 44.7% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 49.1% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 87.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 4.5% |
| GSM8K | 46.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 7B: 26.8 (#248)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#183)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1002 | 1338 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 12.7% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 61.4% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.2% | — |
| MMLU | 66.1% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 78.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 72.3% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemma 7B: —
- GPT-4.1 mini: 35.2 (#77)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1181 |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 7B: 25.3 (#282)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 45.9 (#161)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 999 | 1318 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1035 | 1329 |
| LMArena French | 1024 | 1357 |
| LMArena Russian | 993 | 1324 |
| LMArena German | — | 1349 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1291 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1298 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1319 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 7B: 51.7 (#290)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 73.9 (#113)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1017 | 1332 |
| IFEval | — | 90.4% |

## Long Context

- Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#277)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#270)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1022 | 1344 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 44.4% |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 7B: 27.2 (#297)
- GPT-4.1 mini: 48.8 (#193)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-4.1 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1056 | 1341 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1024 | 1300 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 963 | 1354 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1147 |
| WildBench | — | 83.8% |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 7B better than GPT-4.1 mini?

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.5 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemma 7B or GPT-4.1 mini better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (29.9 vs 30.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and GPT-4.1 mini share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 mini has 47.