Model comparison
Gemma 2B vs GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra is the stronger model overall, scoring 70.8 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2B scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-6 Astra in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-6 Astra leads 85.1 to 18.8.
- Gemma 2B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemma 2B | GPT-6 Astra | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | |
| Noometry Index | 29.6 | 70.8 |
| Released | 2024-02-21 | 2026-09-03 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1.05M |
| Max output | — | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $50 |
| Results tracked | 23 | 56 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-6 Astra leads
Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305), GPT-6 Astra: 73.7 (#2)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1010 | 1487 |
| DeepSWE | — | 74.1% |
| FrontierCode | — | 53.3% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1786 |
| FrontierSWE | — | 65.5% |
| SciCode | — | 56.5% |
| GSO | — | 79.4% |
| WeirdML | — | 93.6% |
| MirrorCode | — | 46.7% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 2,951 |
| HumanEval+ | 20.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 34.1% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemma 2B: —, GPT-6 Astra: 52.9 (#3)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 64.7% |
| Remote Labor Index | — | 20.8% |
| BALROG | — | 68.3% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 34.2% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 15,515 |
Reasoning GPT-6 Astra leads
Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275), GPT-6 Astra: 85.1 (#1)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 989 | 1462 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 94.2 | 166.45 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 95% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 98.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 98.5% |
| CritPt | — | 31.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 72% |
| EBR-Bench | — | 76.2% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 84% |
| DTBench | — | 97.3% |
| LMCA | — | 64.4% |
| Bench to the Future 3 | — | 0.14 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 35.2% | — |
| HellaSwag | 71.4% | — |
| PIQA | 77.3% | — |
| WinoGrande | 65.4% | — |
Math GPT-6 Astra leads
Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239), GPT-6 Astra: 93.5 (#2)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1009 | 1465 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 93.7% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 97.6% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 100% |
| ProofBench | — | 99% |
| FrontierMath Erdős | — | 2.9% |
| GSM8K | 17.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemma 2B: —, GPT-6 Astra: 75.3 (#1)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 95.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 54.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 75.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 8.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1483 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.1% | — |
| BoolQ | 69.4% | — |
| MMLU | 42.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | 53.2% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemma 2B: —, GPT-6 Astra: 55.0 (#3)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1281 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 49.7% |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 80% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1468 |
Multilingual GPT-6 Astra leads
Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294), GPT-6 Astra: 53.7 (#61)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 958 | 1430 |
| LMArena Chinese | 986 | 1484 |
| LMArena Russian | 937 | 1436 |
| LMArena French | — | 1456 |
| LMArena German | — | 1440 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1379 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1426 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1407 |
Instruction Following GPT-6 Astra leads
Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302), GPT-6 Astra: 76.3 (#44)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 970 | 1450 |
Long Context GPT-6 Astra leads
Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291), GPT-6 Astra: 44.5 (#62)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 981 | 1456 |
Writing & Preference GPT-6 Astra leads
Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308), GPT-6 Astra: 75.3 (#7)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1002 | 1441 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 987 | 1418 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 945 | 1448 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 2173 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 2B better than GPT-6 Astra?
GPT-6 Astra is the stronger model overall, scoring 70.8 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemma 2B or GPT-6 Astra better for coding?
GPT-6 Astra scores higher on coding benchmarks: 73.7 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 2B and GPT-6 Astra share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and GPT-6 Astra has 56.