Model comparison

Gemini 1.0 Pro vs Gemma 3 4B

Gemini 1.0 Pro and Gemma 3 4B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (27.3 vs 28.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.0 Pro Google

27.3

Rank #332 Confirmed

Gemma 3 4B Google

28.1

Rank #326 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.0 Pro scores higher in 2 categories and Gemma 3 4B in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Gemma 3 4B leads 42.5 to 33.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 34% for Gemini 1.0 Pro and 23.2% for Gemma 3 4B.
  • Gemma 3 4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.0 Pro and Gemma 3 4B specifications
Gemini 1.0 ProGemma 3 4B
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index27.328.1
Released2023-12-132025-03-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.04
Output $ / M tokens—$0.08
Results tracked2422

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 3 4B leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 32.2 (#275), Gemma 3 4B: 35.9 (#215)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemma 3 4B
LMArena Coding11081230
HumanEval+55.5%—
MBPP+61.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.0 Pro: —, Gemma 3 4B: 20.9 (#142)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemma 3 4B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—19.6%

Reasoning Gemini 1.0 Pro leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 17.1 (#296), Gemma 3 4B: 13.2 (#335)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemma 3 4B
LMArena Hard Prompts11091253
DTBench45.9%50.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index117.04116.02
Kagi LLM Benchmark—25.2%
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMCA—2.8%

Math Gemma 3 4B leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 9.3 (#321), Gemma 3 4B: 16.8 (#292)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemma 3 4B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.1%7.5%
LMArena Math11321239
MATH Level 511.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 1.0 Pro leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 15.6 (#291), Gemma 3 4B: 11.8 (#299)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemma 3 4B
GPQA Diamond34%23.2%
LMArena Expert10591223
Vectara Hallucination Rate—6.4%
MMLU70%—

Multilingual Gemma 3 4B leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 33.4 (#252), Gemma 3 4B: 42.5 (#194)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemma 3 4B
LMArena Non-English11381273
LMArena German11251281
LMArena Russian11861294
LMArena Chinese1124—
LMArena French1145—
LMArena Japanese1023—
LMArena Spanish1119—

Instruction Following Gemma 3 4B leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 57.6 (#267), Gemma 3 4B: 65.2 (#225)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemma 3 4B
LMArena Instruction Following11141239

Long Context Gemma 3 4B leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 34.3 (#249), Gemma 3 4B: 38.7 (#194)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemma 3 4B
LMArena Longer Query11321273

Writing & Preference Gemma 3 4B leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 36.0 (#264), Gemma 3 4B: 42.0 (#239)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemma 3 4B
LMArena Text11491291
LMArena Creative Writing11311271
LMArena Multi-Turn11391255
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1068

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.0 Pro better than Gemma 3 4B?

Gemini 1.0 Pro and Gemma 3 4B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (27.3 vs 28.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemini 1.0 Pro or Gemma 3 4B better for coding?

Gemma 3 4B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 32.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.0 Pro and Gemma 3 4B share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.0 Pro has 24 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 4B has 22.

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