Model comparison
Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Gemma 7B
Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads 65.6 to 27.2.
- Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Gemma 7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | ||
| Noometry Index | 52.3 | 29.5 |
| Released | 2025-12-17 | 2024-02-21 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1.05M | — |
| Max output | 66K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.50 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $3 | — |
| Results tracked | 59 | 27 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.5 (#35), Gemma 7B: 29.9 (#290)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1460 | 1048 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 75.4% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 75.8% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1439 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 72.7% | — |
| GSO | 9.8% | — |
| WeirdML | 61.6% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 1,367 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 28.7% |
| MBPP+ | — | 43.4% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 38.6 (#27), Gemma 7B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 64.3% | — |
| τ²-bench Airline | 82.5% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 27.3% | — |
| τ²-bench Retail | 76.8% | — |
| τ²-bench Telecom | 91.2% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 49.8% | — |
| BALROG | 48.1% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 10% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1198 | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 3,635 | — |
Reasoning Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 49.2 (#35), Gemma 7B: 19.0 (#247)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1465 | 1042 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 151.83 | 111.74 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 33.6% | — |
| SimpleBench | 61.1% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 83.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 84.7% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 40% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 26% | — |
| DTBench | 89.1% | — |
| LMCA | 43.1% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 48.7% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 55.1% |
| ForecastBench | 58.5 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 82.2% |
| PIQA | — | 81.2% |
| WinoGrande | — | 79% |
Math Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.4 (#42), Gemma 7B: 28.7 (#225)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1472 | 1066 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 51.2% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 17.1% | — |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 67.6% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 95.6% | — |
| ProofBench | 15% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 35.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 46.4% |
Knowledge Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 58.8 (#30), Gemma 7B: 26.8 (#248)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1461 | 1002 |
| GPQA Diamond | 89.4% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 66.8% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 13.5% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.3% |
| BoolQ | — | 83.2% |
| MMLU | — | 66.1% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 78.6% |
| TriviaQA | — | 72.3% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 45.3 (#15), Gemma 7B: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1285 | — |
| GeoBench | 88% | — |
| VPCT | 72.6% | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 0% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1413 | — |
Multilingual Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 55.9 (#26), Gemma 7B: 25.3 (#282)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1458 | 999 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1510 | 1035 |
| LMArena French | 1478 | 1024 |
| LMArena Russian | 1480 | 993 |
| LMArena German | 1497 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1488 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1443 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1470 | — |
Instruction Following Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 75.8 (#52), Gemma 7B: 51.7 (#290)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1437 | 1017 |
Long Context Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 44.4 (#63), Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#277)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1452 | 1022 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 65.6 (#44), Gemma 7B: 27.2 (#297)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1466 | 1056 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1457 | 1024 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1471 | 963 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview better than Gemma 7B?
Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Gemma 7B better for coding?
Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.5 versus 29.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Gemma 7B share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Flash Preview has 59 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 7B has 27.