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Gemma 2 9B vs o3 Mini

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Winner summary

o3 Mini wins 4 of 4 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena · knowledge · math.

Category leads
arena·o3 Miniknowledge·o3 Minimath·o3 Mini
Hype vs Reality
Gemma 2 9B
#219 by perf·#7 by attention
OVERHYPED
o3 Mini
#239 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
50.8x better value than o3 Mini
Gemma 2 9B
600.0 pts/$
$0.06/M
o3 Mini
11.8 pts/$
$2.75/M
Vendor risk
Google DeepMind logo
Google DeepMind
$4.20T·Tier 1
Low risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Gemma 2 9Bo3 Mini
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
o3 Mini leads by +83.0
Gemma 2 9B
1265.0
o3 Mini
1348.1
GPQA diamond
o3 Mini leads by +66.1
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Gemma 2 9B
3.3
o3 Mini
69.4
MATH level 5
o3 Mini leads by +75.5
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
Gemma 2 9B
21.0
o3 Mini
96.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
o3 Mini leads by +76.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Gemma 2 9B
0.5
o3 Mini
76.9
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGemma 2 9Bo3 Mini
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1265.01348.1
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
3.369.4
MATH level 5
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
21.096.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
0.576.9
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Google DeepMind logoGemma 2 9B$0.03$0.098K tokens (~4 books)$0.45
OpenAI logoo3 Mini$1.10$4.40200K tokens (~100 books)$19.25