Model comparison

Gemma 7B vs GPT-5.5

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 7B Google

30.0

Rank #299 Confirmed

GPT-5.5 OpenAI

63.4

Rank #9 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.5 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.5 leads 72.8 to 19.9.
  • Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 7B and GPT-5.5 specifications
Gemma 7BGPT-5.5
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index30.063.4
Released2024-02-212026-04-23
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$5
Output $ / M tokens—$30
Results tracked2771

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.5 leads

Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294), GPT-5.5: 58.2 (#17)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5.5
LMArena Coding10481494
SWE-bench Verified—80.6%
DeepSWE—67%
FrontierCode—43%
LMArena WebDev—1513
SciCode—56.1%
GSO—40.2%
WeirdML—84.9%
MirrorCode—10%
ALE-Bench—1,943
HumanEval+28.7%—
MBPP+43.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 7B: —, GPT-5.5: 50.7 (#6)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5.5
Terminal-Bench—84.7%
APEX-Agents—55.1%
OSWorld 2.0—13%
Remote Labor Index—6.3%
τ²-bench Banking—44.6%
DeepResearch Bench—54%
PostTrainBench—27.2%
ExploitBench—47.4%
GBAEval—53.2%
GDP.pdf—26%
LMArena Search—1242
Vending-Bench 2—7,524

Reasoning GPT-5.5 leads

Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249), GPT-5.5: 72.8 (#11)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5.5
LMArena Hard Prompts10421489
Epoch Capabilities Index111.99159.1
ARC-AGI-2—85%
SimpleBench—69%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—88.8%
NYT Connections (extended)—96.2%
ARC-AGI-1—95%
CritPt—27.1%
Chess Puzzles—54%
EBR-Bench—34.3%
Mystery Game Puzzles—56%
DTBench—96%
LMCA—54.3%
Surface Evolver Bench—88.1%
Adversarial NLI48.7%—
Bench to the Future 3—0.14
BIG-Bench Hard55.1%—
ForecastBench—60.6
HellaSwag82.2%—
PIQA81.2%—
WinoGrande79%—

Math GPT-5.5 leads

Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228), GPT-5.5: 81.7 (#11)

Knowledge GPT-5.5 leads

Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252), GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#17)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5.5
LMArena Expert10011508
GPQA Diamond—94%
SimpleQA Verified—63%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.3%—
BoolQ83.2%—
MMLU66.1%—
OpenBookQA78.6%—
TriviaQA72.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 7B: —, GPT-5.5: 46.9 (#12)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5.5
LMArena Vision—1297
Blueprint-Bench 2—36.2%
Furniture Assembly—44.2%
LMArena Document—1486

Multilingual GPT-5.5 leads

Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287), GPT-5.5: 56.4 (#20)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5.5
LMArena Non-English9991467
LMArena Chinese10351533
LMArena French10251486
LMArena Russian9931473
LMArena German—1480
LMArena Japanese—1498
LMArena Korean—1460
LMArena Spanish—1468

Instruction Following GPT-5.5 leads

Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295), GPT-5.5: 77.5 (#18)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5.5
LMArena Instruction Following10171479

Long Context GPT-5.5 leads

Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282), GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5.5
LMArena Longer Query10221484
CL-bench Life—22.2%

Writing & Preference GPT-5.5 leads

Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302), GPT-5.5: 72.7 (#13)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5.5
LMArena Text10561472
LMArena Creative Writing10241455
LMArena Multi-Turn9631476
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1844
EQ-Bench 4—1315

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 7B better than GPT-5.5?

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 7B or GPT-5.5 better for coding?

GPT-5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.2 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and GPT-5.5 share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.5 has 71.

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