# Gemma 7B vs Grok 3

> Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-7b-vs-grok-3
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 14

## Summary

- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 1 category and Grok 3 in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Grok 3 leads 55.8 to 27.1.
- Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 7B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 30.0 | 39.9 |
| Rank | 299 | 157 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294)
- Grok 3: 41.9 (#115)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1048 | 1432 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 53.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 37.2% |
| HumanEval+ | 28.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 43.4% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemma 7B: —
- Grok 3: 30.5 (#76)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 29.5% |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249)
- Grok 3: 13.7 (#333)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1042 | 1434 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.99 | 138.33 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| SimpleBench | — | 36.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 61.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 5.5% |
| Adversarial NLI | 48.7% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 55.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 82.2% | — |
| PIQA | 81.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 79% | — |

## Math

- Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228)
- Grok 3: 38.0 (#145)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1066 | 1391 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 55.6% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 46.4% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 88.7% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 3.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 0% |
| GSM8K | 46.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252)
- Grok 3: 46.2 (#82)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1001 | 1421 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 75.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.8% |
| Confabulations | — | 14.2% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.8% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 65% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.2% | — |
| MMLU | 66.1% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 78.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 72.3% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287)
- Grok 3: 52.3 (#87)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 999 | 1410 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1035 | 1448 |
| LMArena French | 1025 | 1460 |
| LMArena Russian | 993 | 1416 |
| LMArena German | — | 1431 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1387 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1373 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1417 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295)
- Grok 3: 75.0 (#73)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1017 | 1409 |
| IFEval | — | 88.4% |

## Long Context

- Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282)
- Grok 3: 38.7 (#192)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1022 | 1439 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 58.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302)
- Grok 3: 55.8 (#141)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1056 | 1426 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1024 | 1414 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 963 | 1425 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 76.4% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1186 |
| WildBench | — | 84.9% |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 7B better than Grok 3?

Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemma 7B or Grok 3 better for coding?

Grok 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and Grok 3 share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Grok 3 has 40.