Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Gemma 7B

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.4 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic

34.4

Rank #225 Confirmed

Gemma 7B Google

29.5

Rank #295 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 7 categories and Gemma 7B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads 53.0 to 27.2.
  • Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Gemma 7B specifications
Claude 3.5 SonnetGemma 7B
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index34.429.5
Released2024-06-202024-02-21
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked6027

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.5 (#145), Gemma 7B: 29.9 (#290)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemma 7B
LMArena Coding13431048
HumanEval+81.7%28.7%
MBPP+74.3%43.4%
Aider Polyglot51.6%—
GSO4.6%—
WeirdML40%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.8%—
LiveBench Coding67.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete58.6%—
CadEval48%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.1 (#61), Gemma 7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemma 7B
TheAgentCompany24%—
Cybench17.5%—
BALROG32.6%—
METR Time Horizons45.2%—

Reasoning Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 22.5 (#176), Gemma 7B: 19.0 (#247)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemma 7B
LMArena Hard Prompts13051042
Epoch Capabilities Index133.55111.74
SimpleBench41.4%—
EnigmaEval0.9%—
LiveBench Reasoning56.7%—
DTBench67.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis55%—
Adversarial NLI—48.7%
BIG-Bench Hard—55.1%
ForecastBench60.7—
HellaSwag—82.2%
LiveBench59%—
PIQA—81.2%
WinoGrande—79%

Math Gemma 7B leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 18.0 (#282), Gemma 7B: 28.7 (#225)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemma 7B
LMArena Math13061066
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%—
Omni-MATH27.6%—
LiveBench Math52.3%—
MATH Level 556.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)2.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—
GSM8K—46.4%

Knowledge Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.5 (#236), Gemma 7B: 26.8 (#248)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemma 7B
LMArena Expert12641002
MMLU87.3%66.1%
GPQA Diamond55.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam4.1%—
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
Confabulations19.9%—
GPQA (HELM)56.5%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—83.2%
OpenBookQA—78.6%
TriviaQA—72.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.0 (#115), Gemma 7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemma 7B
LMArena Vision1125—
Video-MME60%—
GeoBench62%—
VPCT33%—

Multilingual Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.4 (#180), Gemma 7B: 25.3 (#282)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemma 7B
LMArena Non-English1283999
LMArena Chinese12711035
LMArena French13041024
LMArena Russian1305993
LMArena German1297—
LMArena Japanese1234—
LMArena Korean1200—
LMArena Spanish1289—

Instruction Following Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 69.0 (#177), Gemma 7B: 51.7 (#290)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemma 7B
LMArena Instruction Following12971017
LiveBench Instruction Following69.3%—
IFEval85.5%—

Long Context Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#162), Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#277)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemma 7B
LMArena Longer Query13111022

Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 53.0 (#159), Gemma 7B: 27.2 (#297)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemma 7B
LMArena Text12981056
LMArena Creative Writing12921024
LMArena Multi-Turn1326963
Short-Story Creative Writing80.3%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1451—
WildBench79.2%—
LiveBench Language53.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Gemma 7B?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.4 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Gemma 7B better for coding?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.5 versus 29.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Gemma 7B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 7B has 27.

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