Model comparison

Gemma 3 12B vs o1-pro

Gemma 3 12B and o1-pro score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.8 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

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Gemma 3 12B Google

31.8

Rank #255 Confirmed

o1-pro OpenAI

31.2

Rank #264 Reported

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where o1-pro leads 20.2 to 15.2.
  • Gemma 3 12B is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $150 / $600 for o1-pro.
  • o1-pro accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 131K.
  • Gemma 3 12B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 3 12B and o1-pro specifications
Gemma 3 12Bo1-pro
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index31.831.2
Released2025-03-122025-03-19
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window131K200K
Max output8K100K
Input $ / M tokens$0.05$150
Output $ / M tokens$0.15$600
Results tracked243

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 3 12B: 31.2 (#276), o1-pro: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 12Bo1-pro
SciCode17.4%—
LMArena Coding1281—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 3 12B: 25.3 (#101), o1-pro: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 12Bo1-pro
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard30.4%—

Reasoning o1-pro leads

Gemma 3 12B: 15.2 (#307), o1-pro: 20.2 (#223)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 12Bo1-pro
ARC-AGI-1—23.3%
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles0%—
EnigmaEval—6.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts1309—
DTBench48.8%—
LMCA4.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index123.49—

Math Not comparable

Gemma 3 12B: 21.0 (#273), o1-pro: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 12Bo1-pro
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.7%—
LMArena Math1307—

Knowledge o1-pro leads

Gemma 3 12B: 26.5 (#250), o1-pro: 29.3 (#227)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 12Bo1-pro
GPQA Diamond39.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam—8.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate4.4%—
LMArena Expert1248—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 3 12B: —, o1-pro: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 12Bo1-pro
MindCube46.7%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 3 12B: 45.9 (#160), o1-pro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 12Bo1-pro
LMArena Non-English1318—
LMArena German1370—
LMArena Russian1335—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 3 12B: 68.8 (#179), o1-pro: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 12Bo1-pro
LMArena Instruction Following1299—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 3 12B: 40.0 (#157), o1-pro: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 12Bo1-pro
LMArena Longer Query1317—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 3 12B: 47.7 (#205), o1-pro: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 12Bo1-pro
LMArena Text1334—
LMArena Creative Writing1331—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1126—
LMArena Multi-Turn1334—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 12B better than o1-pro?

Gemma 3 12B and o1-pro score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.8 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Gemma 3 12B or o1-pro?

Gemma 3 12B is cheaper. It lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; o1-pro lists at $150 and $600.

Which has the bigger context window?

o1-pro does, with 200K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 12B and o1-pro share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 12B has 24 scored results on Noometry and o1-pro has 3.

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