Model comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Gemma 2B
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 6 categories and Gemma 2B in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads 52.9 to 24.0.
- Gemma 2B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemma 2B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 34.6 | 29.6 |
| Released | 2024-06-20 | 2024-02-21 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 60 | 23 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165), Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1342 | 1010 |
| HumanEval+ | 81.7% | 20.7% |
| MBPP+ | 74.3% | 34.1% |
| Aider Polyglot | 51.6% | — |
| GSO | 4.6% | — |
| WeirdML | 40% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 67.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58.6% | — |
| CadEval | 48% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.3 (#67), Gemma 2B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 24% | — |
| Cybench | 17.5% | — |
| BALROG | 32.6% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 45.2% | — |
Reasoning Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183), Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1305 | 989 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.55 | 94.2 |
| SimpleBench | 41.4% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.9% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 56.7% | — |
| DTBench | 67.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 55% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 35.2% |
| ForecastBench | 60.7 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 71.4% |
| LiveBench | 59% | — |
| PIQA | — | 77.3% |
| WinoGrande | — | 65.4% |
Math Gemma 2B leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288), Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1307 | 1009 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.5% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 27.6% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 52.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 56.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 2.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 17.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245), Gemma 2B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 87.3% | 42.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | 55.3% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 19.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 56.5% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1265 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 42.1% |
| BoolQ | — | 69.4% |
| TriviaQA | — | 53.2% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.5 (#120), Gemma 2B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1125 | — |
| Video-MME | 60% | — |
| GeoBench | 62% | — |
| VPCT | 33% | — |
Multilingual Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185), Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1283 | 958 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1272 | 986 |
| LMArena Russian | 1306 | 937 |
| LMArena French | 1305 | — |
| LMArena German | 1297 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1234 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1200 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1290 | — |
Instruction Following Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 68.8 (#182), Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | 970 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 69.3% | — |
| IFEval | 85.5% | — |
Long Context Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167), Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1311 | 981 |
Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164), Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1298 | 1002 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1292 | 987 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1326 | 945 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 80.3% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1451 | — |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 53.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Gemma 2B?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Gemma 2B better for coding?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.0 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Gemma 2B share?
15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2B has 23.