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Model comparison

Gemma 3 4B vs GPT-6 Sol

GPT-6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.2 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index. Gemma 3 4B costs 80× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-6 Sol's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 4B Google

27.9

Rank #320 Confirmed

GPT-6 Sol OpenAI

49.2

Rank #46 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 4B scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-6 Sol in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-6 Sol leads 49.3 to 12.7.
  • Gemma 3 4B is cheaper at $0.04 / $0.08 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $10 for GPT-6 Sol.
  • GPT-6 Sol accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • Gemma 3 4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 3 4BGPT-6 Sol
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index27.949.2
Released2025-03-122026-09-22
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window131K1.05M
Max output4K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.04$2
Output $ / M tokens$0.08$10
Results tracked2222

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Category by category

Coding GPT-6 Sol leads

Gemma 3 4B: 35.3 (#214), GPT-6 Sol: 59.6 (#11)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGPT-6 Sol
LMArena Coding12301453
DeepSWE—68.8%
FrontierCode—49.3%
LMArena WebDev—1692

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-6 Sol leads

Gemma 3 4B: 20.7 (#134), GPT-6 Sol: 33.5 (#49)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGPT-6 Sol
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard19.6%—
GDP.pdf—28%

Reasoning GPT-6 Sol leads

Gemma 3 4B: 12.7 (#330), GPT-6 Sol: 49.3 (#34)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGPT-6 Sol
LMArena Hard Prompts12531420
Kagi LLM Benchmark25.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)—90.1%
Chess Puzzles0%—
EBR-Bench—53.3%
DTBench50.9%—
LMCA2.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index116.02—

Math GPT-6 Sol leads

Gemma 3 4B: 15.8 (#286), GPT-6 Sol: 35.8 (#135)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGPT-6 Sol
LMArena Math12391404
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20257.5%—

Knowledge GPT-6 Sol leads

Gemma 3 4B: 11.8 (#294), GPT-6 Sol: 43.0 (#87)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGPT-6 Sol
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.4%6.5%
LMArena Expert12231449
GPQA Diamond23.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 3 4B: —, GPT-6 Sol: 47.6 (#9)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGPT-6 Sol
Furniture Assembly—58.3%

Multilingual GPT-6 Sol leads

Gemma 3 4B: 42.7 (#189), GPT-6 Sol: 51.0 (#113)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGPT-6 Sol
LMArena Non-English12731389
LMArena Russian12941407
LMArena Chinese—1416
LMArena German1281—
LMArena Spanish—1377

Instruction Following GPT-6 Sol leads

Gemma 3 4B: 65.4 (#219), GPT-6 Sol: 74.4 (#97)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGPT-6 Sol
LMArena Instruction Following12391406

Long Context GPT-6 Sol leads

Gemma 3 4B: 38.6 (#189), GPT-6 Sol: 43.2 (#100)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGPT-6 Sol
LMArena Longer Query12741415

Writing & Preference GPT-6 Sol leads

Gemma 3 4B: 42.2 (#234), GPT-6 Sol: 72.3 (#15)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGPT-6 Sol
LMArena Text12911396
LMArena Creative Writing12701392
EQ-Bench Creative Writing10682125
LMArena Multi-Turn12551405

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 4B better than GPT-6 Sol?

GPT-6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.2 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index. Gemma 3 4B costs 80× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-6 Sol's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemma 3 4B or GPT-6 Sol?

Gemma 3 4B is cheaper. It lists at $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.08 per million output tokens; GPT-6 Sol lists at $2 and $10.

Is Gemma 3 4B or GPT-6 Sol better for coding?

GPT-6 Sol scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.6 versus 35.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-6 Sol does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 4B and GPT-6 Sol share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 4B has 22 scored results on Noometry and GPT-6 Sol has 22.

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