Model comparison
Gemma 3n E4b IT vs o3-mini
Gemma 3n E4b IT and o3-mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.3 vs 36.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3n E4b IT scores higher in 3 categories and o3-mini in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where o3-mini leads 75.1 to 66.1.
- Gemma 3n E4b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemma 3n E4b IT | o3-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | |
| Noometry Index | 37.3 | 36.7 |
| Released | — | 2024-12-20 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 200K |
| Max output | — | 100K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $4.40 |
| Results tracked | 18 | 51 |
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Category by category
Coding o3-mini leads
Gemma 3n E4b IT: 37.0 (#198), o3-mini: 40.8 (#132)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3n E4b IT | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1268 | 1378 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 60.4% |
| SciCode | — | 39.8% |
| GSO | — | 1.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 82.7% |
| CadEval | — | 54% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemma 3n E4b IT: —, o3-mini: 29.6 (#84)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3n E4b IT | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 22.5% |
Reasoning Gemma 3n E4b IT leads
Gemma 3n E4b IT: 19.9 (#247), o3-mini: 16.3 (#305)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3n E4b IT | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1284 | 1366 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 3% |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.8% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 31.5% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 34.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 17% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 89.6% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 7% |
| DTBench | — | 68.8% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 70.6% |
| LMCA | — | 19% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 140.34 |
| ForecastBench | — | 59.6 |
| LiveBench | — | 75.9% |
Math Gemma 3n E4b IT leads
Gemma 3n E4b IT: 35.1 (#188), o3-mini: 28.1 (#244)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3n E4b IT | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1251 | 1396 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 18.6% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 0% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 76.9% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 96.5% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 12.4% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 4.2% |
Knowledge o3-mini leads
Gemma 3n E4b IT: 34.2 (#198), o3-mini: 38.3 (#146)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3n E4b IT | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1246 | 1364 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 77% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 15.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 17.9% |
Multilingual o3-mini leads
Gemma 3n E4b IT: 43.4 (#183), o3-mini: 45.7 (#164)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3n E4b IT | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1285 | 1319 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1309 | 1379 |
| LMArena French | 1330 | 1334 |
| LMArena German | 1311 | 1303 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1272 | 1286 |
| LMArena Korean | 1259 | 1314 |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | 1304 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1305 | 1321 |
Instruction Following o3-mini leads
Gemma 3n E4b IT: 66.1 (#210), o3-mini: 75.1 (#72)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3n E4b IT | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1255 | 1337 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 84.4% |
Long Context Gemma 3n E4b IT leads
Gemma 3n E4b IT: 38.7 (#191), o3-mini: 33.8 (#256)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3n E4b IT | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1276 | 1343 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 50% |
Writing & Preference Too close to call
Gemma 3n E4b IT: 50.1 (#186), o3-mini: 50.3 (#182)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3n E4b IT | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1306 | 1337 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1287 | 1286 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1276 | 1320 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 61.7% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 50.7% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 3n E4b IT better than o3-mini?
Gemma 3n E4b IT and o3-mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.3 vs 36.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Gemma 3n E4b IT or o3-mini better for coding?
o3-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.8 versus 37.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 3n E4b IT and o3-mini share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3n E4b IT has 18 scored results on Noometry and o3-mini has 51.