# Gemma 7B vs gpt-oss-120b

> gpt-oss-120b is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-7b-vs-gpt-oss-120b
- 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-oss-120b in 8 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where gpt-oss-120b leads 48.0 to 25.1.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 7B | gpt-oss-120b |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 30.0 | 36.3 |
| Rank | 299 | 217 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.037 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.17 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294)
- gpt-oss-120b: 33.5 (#256)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | gpt-oss-120b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1048 | 1380 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 26% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 41.8% |
| SciCode | — | 36% |
| WeirdML | — | 48.2% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 575.62 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.41 |
| HumanEval+ | 28.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 43.4% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemma 7B: —
- gpt-oss-120b: 12.2 (#153)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | gpt-oss-120b |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 18.7% |
| APEX-Agents | — | 4.4% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 56.6% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | -21.53 |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249)
- gpt-oss-120b: 20.0 (#245)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | gpt-oss-120b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1042 | 1364 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.99 | 139.93 |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 58.6% |
| CritPt | — | 1.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 20% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 2% |
| DTBench | — | 76.3% |
| LMCA | — | 22.1% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 25% |
| Adversarial NLI | 48.7% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 55.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 82.2% | — |
| PIQA | 81.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 79% | — |

## Math

- Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228)
- gpt-oss-120b: 52.5 (#50)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | gpt-oss-120b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1066 | 1389 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 88.9% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 68.8% |
| GSM8K | 46.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252)
- gpt-oss-120b: 42.4 (#96)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | gpt-oss-120b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1001 | 1356 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 75.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 79.5% |
| Confabulations | — | 15.7% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 14.2% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 68.4% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.2% | — |
| MMLU | 66.1% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 78.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 72.3% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287)
- gpt-oss-120b: 48.0 (#147)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | gpt-oss-120b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 999 | 1351 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1035 | 1385 |
| LMArena French | 1025 | 1369 |
| LMArena Russian | 993 | 1343 |
| LMArena German | — | 1353 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1331 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1282 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1389 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295)
- gpt-oss-120b: 69.3 (#173)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | gpt-oss-120b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1017 | 1318 |
| IFEval | — | 83.6% |

## Long Context

- Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282)
- gpt-oss-120b: 31.4 (#278)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | gpt-oss-120b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1022 | 1319 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 44.4% |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302)
- gpt-oss-120b: 46.5 (#217)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | gpt-oss-120b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1056 | 1365 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1024 | 1275 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 963 | 1340 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 77.1% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 961 |
| WildBench | — | 84.5% |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 7B better than gpt-oss-120b?

gpt-oss-120b is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemma 7B or gpt-oss-120b better for coding?

gpt-oss-120b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.5 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and gpt-oss-120b share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and gpt-oss-120b has 48.