Model comparison
Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Gemma 2B
Claude 3.5 Haiku and Gemma 2B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.2 vs 29.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher in 5 categories and Gemma 2B in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3.5 Haiku leads 42.7 to 24.0.
- Gemma 2B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3.5 Haiku | Gemma 2B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 29.2 | 29.6 |
| Released | 2024-10-22 | 2024-02-21 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 49 | 23 |
Sponsored placements are available on pages like this one. Advertise on Noometry
Category by category
Coding Claude 3.5 Haiku leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 32.9 (#265), Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1286 | 1010 |
| Aider Polyglot | 28% | — |
| SciCode | 27.4% | — |
| WeirdML | 30.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 51.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59% | — |
| CadEval | 32% | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 20.7% |
| MBPP+ | — | 34.1% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 28.0 (#95), Gemma 2B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 19.3% | — |
Reasoning Gemma 2B leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 17.7 (#290), Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1251 | 989 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.15 | 94.2 |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 28.1% | — |
| DTBench | 56.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.5% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 35.2% |
| HellaSwag | — | 71.4% |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |
| PIQA | — | 77.3% |
| WinoGrande | — | 65.4% |
Math Gemma 2B leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 14.7 (#300), Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1244 | 1009 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 22.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 35.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.4% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 17.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 18.7 (#281), Gemma 2B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 74.3% | 42.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | 38.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60.5% | — |
| Confabulations | 36.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 36.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1208 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 42.1% |
| BoolQ | — | 69.4% |
| TriviaQA | — | 53.2% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 26.8 (#117), Gemma 2B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1092 | — |
| GeoBench | 34% | — |
Multilingual Claude 3.5 Haiku leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 40.0 (#218), Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1238 | 958 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1229 | 986 |
| LMArena Russian | 1253 | 937 |
| LMArena French | 1264 | — |
| LMArena German | 1237 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1173 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1261 | — |
Instruction Following Claude 3.5 Haiku leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 62.9 (#234), Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1241 | 970 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 61.9% | — |
| IFEval | 79.2% | — |
Long Context Claude 3.5 Haiku leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 38.3 (#200), Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1261 | 981 |
Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Haiku leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 42.7 (#234), Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | 1002 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1233 | 987 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1265 | 945 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.5% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1146 | — |
| WildBench | 76% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 35.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.5 Haiku better than Gemma 2B?
Claude 3.5 Haiku and Gemma 2B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.2 vs 29.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Claude 3.5 Haiku or Gemma 2B better for coding?
Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Haiku and Gemma 2B share?
13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Haiku has 49 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2B has 23.