# Gemma 7B vs GPT-5.6 Terra

> GPT-5.6 Terra is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.2 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-7b-vs-gpt-5-6-terra
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 14

## Summary

- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.6 Terra in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.6 Terra leads 81.6 to 31.2.
- Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 7B | GPT-5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 30.0 | 59.2 |
| Rank | 299 | 17 |
| Context | — | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | — | $2 |
| Output $/M | — | $12 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294)
- GPT-5.6 Terra: 57.7 (#19)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1048 | 1484 |
| DeepSWE | — | 69.6% |
| FrontierCode | — | 41.3% |
| CursorBench | — | 41.3% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1522 |
| SciCode | — | 55% |
| WeirdML | — | 78.3% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 1,951 |
| HumanEval+ | 28.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 43.4% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemma 7B: —
- GPT-5.6 Terra: 40.1 (#25)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 58.2% |
| BALROG | — | 53.2% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 24.7% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 7,343 |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249)
- GPT-5.6 Terra: 60.7 (#21)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1042 | 1468 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.99 | 159.62 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 83.9% |
| SimpleBench | — | 48.9% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 51.3% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 78.4% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 96.5% |
| CritPt | — | 30% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 54% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 35% |
| DTBench | — | 93.3% |
| LMCA | — | 55% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 83.8% |
| Adversarial NLI | 48.7% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 55.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 82.2% | — |
| PIQA | 81.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 79% | — |

## Math

- Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228)
- GPT-5.6 Terra: 81.6 (#12)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1066 | 1466 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 86% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 70.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 99.7% |
| ProofBench | — | 74% |
| GSM8K | 46.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252)
- GPT-5.6 Terra: 61.2 (#30)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1001 | 1492 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 93.3% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 43.2% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.2% | — |
| MMLU | 66.1% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 78.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 72.3% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemma 7B: —
- GPT-5.6 Terra: 47.3 (#11)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1271 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 30.8% |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 54.2% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1472 |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287)
- GPT-5.6 Terra: 54.4 (#44)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 999 | 1439 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1035 | 1513 |
| LMArena French | 1025 | 1471 |
| LMArena Russian | 993 | 1450 |
| LMArena German | — | 1460 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1457 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1425 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1448 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295)
- GPT-5.6 Terra: 76.4 (#40)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1017 | 1454 |

## Long Context

- Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282)
- GPT-5.6 Terra: 44.4 (#68)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1022 | 1451 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302)
- GPT-5.6 Terra: 70.2 (#23)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | GPT-5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1056 | 1447 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1024 | 1410 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 963 | 1449 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1855 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1234 |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 7B better than GPT-5.6 Terra?

GPT-5.6 Terra is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.2 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemma 7B or GPT-5.6 Terra better for coding?

GPT-5.6 Terra scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.7 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and GPT-5.6 Terra share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.6 Terra has 52.