Benchmark Almanac

Gemma 2 9B

Gemma 2 9B places in the top three on ALRAGE.

Google DeepMind Released June 24th, 2024 Compare with others
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Ranked first, out of five or more models
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In the top three
Google DeepMind Jun 2024

Gemma 2 9B

Open weights

112.7 #201 of 256
Epoch Capabilities Index
Self-Reported Index 107.9 #382 of 404
  • GPQA Diamond 27.5% #214 /229
  • KoBALT 21% #7 /12
  • KOR-Bench 41.6% #19 /33

Where it ranks

Its best score on each benchmark, and where that ranks among every model with a score there. We rank each model once, at its best setting.

Knowledge and language

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
ALRAGE 80.5% #3 of 39 Official leaderboard
MuSR 44.6% #19 of 98 Official leaderboard
EQ-Bench v2 80.5 #22 of 85 Official leaderboard
Open Arabic LLM Leaderboard v1 50.4% #15 of 55 Official leaderboard
BoolQ 84.2% #8 of 28 Lab model card
WildBench 45.4 #19 of 47 Official leaderboard
WinoGrande 80.6% #19 of 47 Lab model card
SIQA 53.4% #10 of 24 Lab model card
ARC-Easy 88% #10 of 23 Lab model card
KoBALT 21% #7 of 12 Official leaderboard
MLogiQA 41.5% #10 of 17 Official leaderboard
MMLU-Pro 52.1% #131 of 212 Official leaderboard
AGIEval 52.8% #25 of 40 Lab model card
TriviaQA 76.6% #25 of 40 Lab model card
PIQA 81.7% #24 of 37 Lab model card
Natural Questions 29.2% #13 of 20 Lab model card
HellaSwag 81.9% #36 of 53 Lab model card
AlGhafa 47.9% #27 of 39 Official leaderboard
Open Arabic LLM Leaderboard v2 46.6% #27 of 39 Official leaderboard
ARC-Challenge 68.4% #34 of 49 Lab model card
BIG-Bench Hard 68.2% #51 of 73 Lab model card
TruthfulQA 50.3% #21 of 30 Lab model card
ArabicMMLU 36.3% #28 of 39 Official leaderboard
MMLU-CF 53.7% #27 of 37 Official leaderboard
CulturalBench 39% #11 of 15 Official leaderboard
MMLU 72.3% #97 of 131 Lab model card
LMArena (Elo) 1,267 #255 of 335 Official leaderboard
MadinahQA 31.7% #30 of 39 Official leaderboard
SuperGPQA 24% #48 of 59 Official leaderboard
ArbMMLU-HT 25% #33 of 39 Official leaderboard
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard (HHEM) 10.1% #130 of 148 Official leaderboard
Creative Writing v3 49.5 #108 of 120 Official leaderboard
EQ-Bench 3 636 #76 of 78 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
KOR-Bench 41.6% #19 of 33 Official leaderboard
ZebraLogic 12.8% #29 of 46 Official leaderboard
PHYSICS 11.9% #14 of 20 Official leaderboard
GSM8K 68.6% #74 of 92 Lab model card
MATH Level 5 21% #77 of 94 Epoch AI run
MATH 36.6% #82 of 99 Lab model card
GPQA Diamond 27.5% #214 of 229 Epoch AI run
IneqMath 0% #32 of 34 Official leaderboard
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 0.56% #208 of 212 Epoch AI run

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
BigCodeBench 37.7% #50 of 69 Official leaderboard
MBPP 59.2% #57 of 71 Lab model card
MHPP 18.1% #19 of 23 Official leaderboard
BigCodeBench-Hard 10.1% #83 of 96 Official leaderboard
HumanEval 40.2% #92 of 101 Lab model card

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SnakeBench 19 #143 of 188 Official leaderboard
LLM Chess -546 #110 of 123 Official leaderboard

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MedQA 63% #44 of 71 Official leaderboard
LEXam 27.4% #25 of 30 Official leaderboard
LegalBench 68.1% #122 of 138 Official leaderboard

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Winogender 79.2% #1 of 4 Lab model card
AraTrust 77.2% #18 of 39 Official leaderboard
OR-Bench 79.9% #19 of 28 Official leaderboard
CrowS-Pairs 37.5% #3 of 4 Lab model card
ToxiGen 39.3 #3 of 4 Lab model card
MolecularIQ 3.95% #15 of 17 Official leaderboard
nocot-bench (NCRI) 44.7 #171 of 185 Official leaderboard

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
HELM Lite 56.2 #31 of 71 Official leaderboard
Open LLM Leaderboard v2 21.2 #53 of 99 Official leaderboard

Its lab's numbers put it at 107.9, 4.8 points below its ECI

The Self-Reported Index fits one score to the 17 capability results Google DeepMind reported for this model, on the scale of the Epoch Capabilities Index. Labs choose which benchmarks to show and how to run them, so read it as the lab's claim, not an independent measurement. The 90% interval runs from 105.9 to 110.0. How we compute it.

Its lab's number next to a leaderboard

Where the benchmark's own leaderboard, or Epoch AI's run, also has this model. Gaps mostly come from different harnesses, effort levels and task subsets. Every pair.

Benchmark Lab says Board says Gap What differs
LMArena (Elo) 1,187 LMSYS Chatbot Arena Elo, IT (Table 14) 1,267 Leaderboard −80 Google quotes Arena's 2024 rating, while the board reflects later votes and rating adjustments.

Google DeepMind's models over time

Google DeepMind's models in color, against every other model on the Epoch Capabilities Index, by release date.

50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Gemini 4 Carbon Gemini 3.8 Flash Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite Gemini 3 Pro Gemini 2.5 Flash Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Gemini 1.5 Pro 50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Gemini 4 Carbon Gemini 3.8 Flash

Source: Epoch Capabilities Index, Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)

Its system card

Every result in the longer documents the lab published with it. 25 of them aren't in the launch post.

Capabilities

Hallucination

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