Model comparison

Gemma 3 1B vs GPT-5.4

GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 1B Google

21.1

Rank #353 Reported

GPT-5.4 OpenAI

59.4

Rank #16 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 1B scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.4 in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.4 leads 73.5 to 10.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 1.1% for Gemma 3 1B and 97.8% for GPT-5.4.
  • Gemma 3 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 3 1B and GPT-5.4 specifications
Gemma 3 1BGPT-5.4
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index21.159.4
Released2025-03-122026-03-05
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$2.50
Output $ / M tokens—$15
Results tracked468

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, GPT-5.4: 52.6 (#33)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-5.4
SWE-bench Verified—76.9%
DeepSWE—51.8%
LMArena WebDev—1465
SciCode—56.6%
GSO—31.4%
WeirdML—77.7%
LMArena Coding—1497
MirrorCode—15.6%
ALE-Bench—1,607
AlgoTune—1.85

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.4 leads

Gemma 3 1B: 13.7 (#152), GPT-5.4: 46.5 (#13)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-5.4
Terminal-Bench—81.8%
APEX-Agents—52.4%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard7.2%—
τ²-bench Banking—39.4%
DeepResearch Bench—35.1%
PostTrainBench—19%
GBAEval—45.1%
LMArena Search—1197
METR Time Horizons—74.3%
Vending-Bench 2—6,144

Reasoning GPT-5.4 leads

Gemma 3 1B: 19.2 (#264), GPT-5.4: 61.8 (#19)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-5.4
Chess Puzzles0%44%
ARC-AGI-2—74%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—63.8%
NYT Connections (extended)—91.3%
ARC-AGI-1—93.7%
CritPt—23.4%
EnigmaEval—16%
Thematic Generalization—80%
EBR-Bench—25.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1485
Mystery Game Puzzles—37%
DTBench—94.4%
LMCA—52%
Epoch Capabilities Index—156.81
ForecastBench—59.5

Math GPT-5.4 leads

Gemma 3 1B: 10.2 (#316), GPT-5.4: 73.5 (#19)

Knowledge GPT-5.4 leads

Gemma 3 1B: 7.0 (#314), GPT-5.4: 65.3 (#14)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-5.4
GPQA Diamond19.9%93.3%
Humanity's Last Exam—36.2%
SimpleQA Verified—45.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7%
LMArena Expert—1507

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, GPT-5.4: 43.7 (#20)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-5.4
LMArena Vision—1303
Blueprint-Bench 2—27.1%
Furniture Assembly—37.5%
LMArena Document—1471

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, GPT-5.4: 56.2 (#23)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-5.4
LMArena Non-English—1465
LMArena Chinese—1519
LMArena French—1493
LMArena German—1472
LMArena Japanese—1485
LMArena Korean—1448
LMArena Russian—1480
LMArena Spanish—1454

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, GPT-5.4: 77.1 (#27)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-5.4
LMArena Instruction Following—1469

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, GPT-5.4: 50.3 (#8)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-5.4
CL-bench—27.9%
CL-bench Life—21.7%
LMArena Longer Query—1473

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, GPT-5.4: 71.9 (#17)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-5.4
LMArena Text—1469
LMArena Creative Writing—1439
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1840
EQ-Bench 4—1272
LMArena Multi-Turn—1482

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 1B better than GPT-5.4?

GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 1B and GPT-5.4 share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 1B has 4 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.4 has 68.

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