# Gemma 7B vs GPT-4.1

> GPT-4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-7b-vs-gpt-4-1
- 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 in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4.1 leads 57.6 to 27.1.
- Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 7B | GPT-4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 30.0 | 35.9 |
| Rank | 299 | 219 |
| Context | — | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | — | $2 |
| Output $/M | — | $8 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294)
- GPT-4.1: 34.4 (#238)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1048 | 1391 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 48.5% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 39.6% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 52.4% |
| WeirdML | — | 39% |
| CadEval | — | 42% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 558.1 |
| HumanEval+ | 28.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 43.4% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemma 7B: —
- GPT-4.1: 34.7 (#43)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 54% |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249)
- GPT-4.1: 11.7 (#339)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1042 | 1384 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.99 | 136.78 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.4% |
| SimpleBench | — | 27% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 52.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 5.5% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 6% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 2.2% |
| DTBench | — | 68.3% |
| LMCA | — | 25.6% |
| Adversarial NLI | 48.7% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 55.1% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 61.5 |
| HellaSwag | 82.2% | — |
| PIQA | 81.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 79% | — |

## Math

- Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228)
- GPT-4.1: 22.3 (#280)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1066 | 1370 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 6% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 38.3% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 47.1% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 83% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 5.5% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 0% |
| GSM8K | 46.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252)
- GPT-4.1: 37.1 (#160)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1001 | 1364 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 66.9% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 5.4% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 31.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 81.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 65.9% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.2% | — |
| MMLU | 66.1% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 78.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 72.3% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemma 7B: —
- GPT-4.1: 38.2 (#67)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1211 |
| GeoBench | — | 72% |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287)
- GPT-4.1: 49.4 (#133)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 999 | 1370 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1035 | 1382 |
| LMArena French | 1025 | 1382 |
| LMArena Russian | 993 | 1377 |
| LMArena German | — | 1381 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1319 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1339 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1376 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295)
- GPT-4.1: 71.3 (#153)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1017 | 1367 |
| IFEval | — | 83.8% |

## Long Context

- Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282)
- GPT-4.1: 40.0 (#163)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1022 | 1385 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 63.9% |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302)
- GPT-4.1: 57.6 (#125)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1056 | 1383 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1024 | 1363 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 963 | 1398 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1420 |
| WildBench | — | 85.4% |

## FAQ

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

GPT-4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

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

GPT-4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

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

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 has 52.