Model comparison
Claude 2.1 vs Gemma 2 9B
Claude 2.1 and Gemma 2 9B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (25.2 vs 25.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2.1 scores higher in 3 categories and Gemma 2 9B in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 2.1 leads 15.4 to 9.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 33% for Claude 2.1 and 27.5% for Gemma 2 9B.
- Gemma 2 9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 2.1 | Gemma 2 9B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 25.2 | 25.9 |
| Released | 2023-11-21 | 2024-06-24 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemma 2 9B leads
Claude 2.1: 26.2 (#327), Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 7.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 34.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 22.5% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1173 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 40.6% |
Reasoning Claude 2.1 leads
Claude 2.1: 21.4 (#221), Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.27 | 119.83 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 15.2% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1171 |
| DTBench | 51% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 36.4% |
| ForecastBench | 54.2 | — |
| LiveBench | — | 28.7% |
| PIQA | — | 83.7% |
Math Too close to call
Claude 2.1: 10.2 (#315), Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.9% | 0.6% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 19.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1183 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 21% |
| GSM8K | — | 84.9% |
Knowledge Claude 2.1 leads
Claude 2.1: 15.4 (#292), Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | 27.5% |
| MMLU | 73.5% | 72.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1147 |
| BoolQ | — | 85.7% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1188 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1185 |
| LMArena French | — | 1190 |
| LMArena German | — | 1186 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1144 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1137 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1200 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1200 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 52.6% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1178 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1197 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1207 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1206 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 841 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1193 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 25.5% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 2.1 better than Gemma 2 9B?
Claude 2.1 and Gemma 2 9B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (25.2 vs 25.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Claude 2.1 or Gemma 2 9B better for coding?
Gemma 2 9B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.4 versus 26.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 2.1 and Gemma 2 9B share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2.1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 9B has 35.