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Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Gemma 2 2b IT

Gemma 2 2b IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.5 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Haiku Anthropic

28.9

Rank #309 Confirmed

Gemma 2 2b IT Google

32.5

Rank #244 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher in 5 categories and Gemma 2 2b IT in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 2 2b IT leads 30.1 to 13.7.
  • Gemma 2 2b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 HaikuGemma 2 2b IT
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index28.932.5
Released2024-10-22—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked4917

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 32.6 (#258), Gemma 2 2b IT: 31.8 (#268)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGemma 2 2b IT
LMArena Coding12871112
Aider Polyglot28%—
SciCode27.4%—
WeirdML30.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete59%—
CadEval32%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 27.7 (#90), Gemma 2 2b IT: —

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGemma 2 2b IT
BALROG19.3%—

Reasoning Gemma 2 2b IT leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 17.1 (#286), Gemma 2 2b IT: 20.5 (#219)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGemma 2 2b IT
LMArena Hard Prompts12511113
CritPt0%—
LiveBench Reasoning28.1%—
DTBench56.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis48.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index127.15—
LiveBench43.5%—

Math Gemma 2 2b IT leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 13.7 (#294), Gemma 2 2b IT: 30.1 (#212)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGemma 2 2b IT
LMArena Math12441135
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.3%—
Omni-MATH22.4%—
LiveBench Math35.5%—
MATH Level 546.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—

Knowledge Gemma 2 2b IT leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 18.7 (#276), Gemma 2 2b IT: 29.3 (#229)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGemma 2 2b IT
LMArena Expert12081096
GPQA Diamond38.1%—
MMLU-Pro60.5%—
Confabulations36.7%—
GPQA (HELM)36.3%—
MMLU74.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 26.3 (#113), Gemma 2 2b IT: —

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGemma 2 2b IT
LMArena Vision1092—
GeoBench34%—

Multilingual Claude 3.5 Haiku leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 40.2 (#213), Gemma 2 2b IT: 32.5 (#252)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGemma 2 2b IT
LMArena Non-English12381121
LMArena Chinese12291132
LMArena French12621156
LMArena German12371114
LMArena Japanese11751083
LMArena Korean11721055
LMArena Russian12531118
LMArena Spanish12611140

Instruction Following Claude 3.5 Haiku leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 63.1 (#229), Gemma 2 2b IT: 58.1 (#258)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGemma 2 2b IT
LMArena Instruction Following12411118
LiveBench Instruction Following61.9%—
IFEval79.2%—

Long Context Claude 3.5 Haiku leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 38.3 (#195), Gemma 2 2b IT: 34.2 (#245)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGemma 2 2b IT
LMArena Longer Query12611130

Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Haiku leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 42.9 (#228), Gemma 2 2b IT: 36.6 (#258)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGemma 2 2b IT
LMArena Text12551156
LMArena Creative Writing12331147
LMArena Multi-Turn12651118
Short-Story Creative Writing73.5%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1146—
WildBench76%—
LiveBench Language35.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Haiku better than Gemma 2 2b IT?

Gemma 2 2b IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.5 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.5 Haiku or Gemma 2 2b IT better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (32.6 vs 31.8); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Haiku and Gemma 2 2b IT share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Haiku has 49 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 2b IT has 17.

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