Model comparison

Gemma 7B vs GPT-5.6 Luna

GPT-5.6 Luna is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.6 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 7B Google

30.0

Rank #299 Confirmed

GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI

54.6

Rank #30 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.6 Luna in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.6 Luna leads 77.7 to 31.2.
  • Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 7B and GPT-5.6 Luna specifications
Gemma 7BGPT-5.6 Luna
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index30.054.6
Released2024-02-212026-07-09
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.20
Output $ / M tokens—$1.20
Results tracked2752

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.6 Luna leads

Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294), GPT-5.6 Luna: 54.5 (#28)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Coding10481466
DeepSWE—67.2%
FrontierCode—39.8%
CursorBench—35.9%
LMArena WebDev—1519
SciCode—53.6%
WeirdML—60.9%
ALE-Bench—1,667
HumanEval+28.7%—
MBPP+43.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 7B: —, GPT-5.6 Luna: 34.4 (#45)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5.6 Luna
APEX-Agents—43%
BALROG—45.6%
GDP.pdf—22.7%
Vending-Bench 2—4,095

Reasoning GPT-5.6 Luna leads

Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249), GPT-5.6 Luna: 47.6 (#43)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Hard Prompts10421451
Epoch Capabilities Index111.99156.39
ARC-AGI-2—59.5%
SimpleBench—46.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.1%
NYT Connections (extended)—69.4%
ARC-AGI-1—88%
CritPt—20.6%
Chess Puzzles—40%
Mystery Game Puzzles—21%
DTBench—89.1%
LMCA—48.5%
Surface Evolver Bench—61.9%
Adversarial NLI48.7%—
BIG-Bench Hard55.1%—
HellaSwag82.2%—
PIQA81.2%—
WinoGrande79%—

Math GPT-5.6 Luna leads

Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228), GPT-5.6 Luna: 77.7 (#14)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Math10661458
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—82.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4—61%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—98.3%
ProofBench—60%
GSM8K46.4%—

Knowledge GPT-5.6 Luna leads

Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252), GPT-5.6 Luna: 58.5 (#34)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Expert10011478
GPQA Diamond—91.6%
SimpleQA Verified—41%
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.3%—
BoolQ83.2%—
MMLU66.1%—
OpenBookQA78.6%—
TriviaQA72.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 7B: —, GPT-5.6 Luna: 42.7 (#28)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Vision—1258
Blueprint-Bench 2—22.6%
Furniture Assembly—42.5%
LMArena Document—1457

Multilingual GPT-5.6 Luna leads

Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287), GPT-5.6 Luna: 52.8 (#78)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Non-English9991417
LMArena Chinese10351470
LMArena French10251456
LMArena Russian9931428
LMArena German—1454
LMArena Japanese—1411
LMArena Korean—1415
LMArena Spanish—1448

Instruction Following GPT-5.6 Luna leads

Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295), GPT-5.6 Luna: 75.6 (#57)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Instruction Following10171437

Long Context GPT-5.6 Luna leads

Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282), GPT-5.6 Luna: 43.9 (#82)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Longer Query10221436

Writing & Preference GPT-5.6 Luna leads

Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302), GPT-5.6 Luna: 68.0 (#29)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BGPT-5.6 Luna
LMArena Text10561431
LMArena Creative Writing10241396
LMArena Multi-Turn9631434
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1829
EQ-Bench 4—1156

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 7B better than GPT-5.6 Luna?

GPT-5.6 Luna is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.6 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 7B or GPT-5.6 Luna better for coding?

GPT-5.6 Luna scores higher on coding benchmarks: 54.5 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and GPT-5.6 Luna share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.6 Luna has 52.

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