Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Gemma 3 1B

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Gemma 3 1B Google

21.1

Rank #353 Reported

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 4 categories and Gemma 3 1B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 64.4 to 7.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 91.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 1.1% for Gemma 3 1B.
  • Gemma 3 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Gemma 3 1B specifications
Gemini 3 ProGemma 3 1B
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index54.821.1
Released2025-11-182025-03-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked674

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Gemma 3 1B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGemma 3 1B
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1440—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
LMArena Coding1481—
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), Gemma 3 1B: 13.7 (#152)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGemma 3 1B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%7.2%
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
GDPval40.3%—
Remote Labor Index1.3%—
τ²-bench Airline80.5%—
τ²-bench Banking18%—
τ²-bench Retail75.9%—
τ²-bench Telecom91%—
DeepResearch Bench46.3%—
BALROG58.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—
Vending-Bench 25,478—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), Gemma 3 1B: 19.2 (#264)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGemma 3 1B
Chess Puzzles31%0%
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
CritPt6.9%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1480—
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92—
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Gemma 3 1B: 10.2 (#316)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGemma 3 1B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%1.1%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
ProofBench20%—
Omni-MATH55.5%—
LMArena Math1476—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), Gemma 3 1B: 7.0 (#314)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGemma 3 1B
GPQA Diamond92.6%19.9%
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—
LMArena Expert1475—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), Gemma 3 1B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGemma 3 1B
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Gemma 3 1B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGemma 3 1B
LMArena Non-English1474—
LMArena Chinese1523—
LMArena French1492—
LMArena German1515—
LMArena Japanese1510—
LMArena Korean1448—
LMArena Russian1493—
LMArena Spanish1470—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), Gemma 3 1B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGemma 3 1B
IFEval87.7%—
LMArena Instruction Following1458—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Gemma 3 1B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGemma 3 1B
CL-bench15.8%—
LMArena Longer Query1471—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Gemma 3 1B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGemma 3 1B
LMArena Text1479—
LMArena Creative Writing1482—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1484—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Gemma 3 1B?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Gemma 3 1B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 1B has 4.

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