Model comparison
Claude 2.1 vs Gemma 7B
Gemma 7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2.1 scores higher in 1 category and Gemma 7B in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 7B leads 31.2 to 10.2.
- Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 2.1 | Gemma 7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 25.2 | 30.0 |
| Released | 2023-11-21 | 2024-02-21 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 27 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemma 7B leads
Claude 2.1: 26.2 (#327), Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 7.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1048 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 28.7% |
| MBPP+ | — | 43.4% |
Reasoning Claude 2.1 leads
Claude 2.1: 21.4 (#221), Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.27 | 111.99 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1042 |
| DTBench | 51% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 48.7% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 55.1% |
| ForecastBench | 54.2 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 82.2% |
| PIQA | — | 81.2% |
| WinoGrande | — | 79% |
Math Gemma 7B leads
Claude 2.1: 10.2 (#315), Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.9% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1066 |
| GSM8K | — | 46.4% |
Knowledge Gemma 7B leads
Claude 2.1: 15.4 (#292), Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 73.5% | 66.1% |
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1001 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.3% |
| BoolQ | — | 83.2% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 78.6% |
| TriviaQA | — | 72.3% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 999 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1035 |
| LMArena French | — | 1025 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 993 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1017 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1022 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1056 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1024 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 963 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 2.1 better than Gemma 7B?
Gemma 7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 2.1 or Gemma 7B better for coding?
Gemma 7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.5 versus 26.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 2.1 and Gemma 7B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2.1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 7B has 27.