Model comparison

Gemma 2B vs GPT-5.6 Luna

GPT-5.6 Luna is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.6 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 2B Google

29.6

Rank #307 Confirmed

GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI

54.6

Rank #30 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2B scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.6 Luna in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.6 Luna leads 77.7 to 30.0.
  • Gemma 2B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 2B and GPT-5.6 Luna specifications
Gemma 2BGPT-5.6 Luna
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index29.654.6
Released2024-02-212026-07-09
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.20
Output $ / M tokens—$1.20
Results tracked2352

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.6 Luna leads

Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305), GPT-5.6 Luna: 54.5 (#28)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Coding10101466
DeepSWE—67.2%
FrontierCode—39.8%
CursorBench—35.9%
LMArena WebDev—1519
SciCode—53.6%
WeirdML—60.9%
ALE-Bench—1,667
HumanEval+20.7%—
MBPP+34.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 2B: —, GPT-5.6 Luna: 34.4 (#45)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-5.6 Luna
APEX-Agents—43%
BALROG—45.6%
GDP.pdf—22.7%
Vending-Bench 2—4,095

Reasoning GPT-5.6 Luna leads

Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275), GPT-5.6 Luna: 47.6 (#43)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Hard Prompts9891451
Epoch Capabilities Index94.2156.39
ARC-AGI-2—59.5%
SimpleBench—46.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.1%
NYT Connections (extended)—69.4%
ARC-AGI-1—88%
CritPt—20.6%
Chess Puzzles—40%
Mystery Game Puzzles—21%
DTBench—89.1%
LMCA—48.5%
Surface Evolver Bench—61.9%
BIG-Bench Hard35.2%—
HellaSwag71.4%—
PIQA77.3%—
WinoGrande65.4%—

Math GPT-5.6 Luna leads

Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239), GPT-5.6 Luna: 77.7 (#14)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Math10091458
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—82.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4—61%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—98.3%
ProofBench—60%
GSM8K17.7%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemma 2B: —, GPT-5.6 Luna: 58.5 (#34)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-5.6 Luna
GPQA Diamond—91.6%
SimpleQA Verified—41%
LMArena Expert—1478
ARC (AI2) Challenge42.1%—
BoolQ69.4%—
MMLU42.3%—
TriviaQA53.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 2B: —, GPT-5.6 Luna: 42.7 (#28)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Vision—1258
Blueprint-Bench 2—22.6%
Furniture Assembly—42.5%
LMArena Document—1457

Multilingual GPT-5.6 Luna leads

Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294), GPT-5.6 Luna: 52.8 (#78)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Non-English9581417
LMArena Chinese9861470
LMArena Russian9371428
LMArena French—1456
LMArena German—1454
LMArena Japanese—1411
LMArena Korean—1415
LMArena Spanish—1448

Instruction Following GPT-5.6 Luna leads

Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302), GPT-5.6 Luna: 75.6 (#57)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Instruction Following9701437

Long Context GPT-5.6 Luna leads

Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291), GPT-5.6 Luna: 43.9 (#82)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Longer Query9811436

Writing & Preference GPT-5.6 Luna leads

Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308), GPT-5.6 Luna: 68.0 (#29)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 2BGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Text10021431
LMArena Creative Writing9871396
LMArena Multi-Turn9451434
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1829
EQ-Bench 4—1156

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 2B better than GPT-5.6 Luna?

GPT-5.6 Luna is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.6 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 2B or GPT-5.6 Luna better for coding?

GPT-5.6 Luna scores higher on coding benchmarks: 54.5 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 2B and GPT-5.6 Luna share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.6 Luna has 52.

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