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Model comparison

Gemma 3 1B vs GPT-5.6 Sol

GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 65.0 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 1B Google

21.1

Rank #353 Reported

GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI

65.0

Rank #7 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 1B scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.6 Sol in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.6 Sol leads 85.6 to 10.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 1.1% for Gemma 3 1B and 100% for GPT-5.6 Sol.
  • Gemma 3 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 3 1BGPT-5.6 Sol
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index21.165.0
Released2025-03-122026-07-09
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$4
Output $ / M tokens—$20
Results tracked465

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 65.1 (#7)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-5.6 Sol
DeepSWE—72.7%
FrontierCode—47.5%
CursorBench—41.7%
LMArena WebDev—1618
FrontierSWE—32.2%
SciCode—57.1%
GSO—76.5%
WeirdML—89.4%
LMArena Coding—1498
MirrorCode—20%
ALE-Bench—2,177

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.6 Sol leads

Gemma 3 1B: 13.7 (#152), GPT-5.6 Sol: 50.3 (#7)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-5.6 Sol
APEX-Agents—51.4%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard7.2%—
OSWorld 2.0—27.3%
τ²-bench Banking—46.9%
PostTrainBench—36.2%
BALROG—60%
GBAEval—52.6%
GDP.pdf—30.7%
LMArena Search—1257
Vending-Bench 2—9,619

Reasoning GPT-5.6 Sol leads

Gemma 3 1B: 19.2 (#264), GPT-5.6 Sol: 74.8 (#8)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-5.6 Sol
Chess Puzzles0%64%
ARC-AGI-2—92.5%
SimpleBench—71.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—67%
NYT Connections (extended)—93.8%
ARC-AGI-1—97.5%
CritPt—32.3%
EnigmaEval—37.1%
EBR-Bench—44.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1484
Mystery Game Puzzles—58%
DTBench—96%
LMCA—59.2%
Surface Evolver Bench—93.1%
Bench to the Future 3—0.14
Epoch Capabilities Index—161.66

Math GPT-5.6 Sol leads

Gemma 3 1B: 10.2 (#316), GPT-5.6 Sol: 85.6 (#9)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-5.6 Sol
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.1%100%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—89.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4—82.9%
ProofBench—83%
LMArena Math—1474
FrontierMath Erdős—0%

Knowledge GPT-5.6 Sol leads

Gemma 3 1B: 7.0 (#314), GPT-5.6 Sol: 64.3 (#18)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-5.6 Sol
GPQA Diamond19.9%93.5%
SimpleQA Verified—69.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—12.4%
LMArena Expert—1516

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 48.6 (#9)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Vision—1281
Blueprint-Bench 2—33.6%
Furniture Assembly—56.7%
LMArena Document—1483

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 55.3 (#32)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Non-English—1452
LMArena Chinese—1527
LMArena French—1477
LMArena German—1476
LMArena Japanese—1471
LMArena Korean—1442
LMArena Russian—1468
LMArena Spanish—1441

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 77.7 (#16)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Instruction Following—1482

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 45.4 (#42)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Longer Query—1480

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 73.3 (#12)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Text—1457
LMArena Creative Writing—1448
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1972
EQ-Bench 4—1250
LMArena Multi-Turn—1460

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 1B better than GPT-5.6 Sol?

GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 65.0 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 1B and GPT-5.6 Sol share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 1B has 4 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.6 Sol has 65.

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