Model comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Gemma 2 27B
Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 29 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 2 27B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 37.5 to 10.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 91.2% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 27.9% for Gemma 2 27B.
- Gemma 2 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemma 2 27B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 39.5 | 29.4 |
| Released | 2025-02-24 | 2024-06-24 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 8K |
| Max output | — | 2K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.65 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.65 |
| Results tracked | 58 | 34 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), Gemma 2 27B: 34.1 (#246)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 74.5% | 36% |
| LMArena Coding | 1361 | 1211 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 61% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 52.8% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 64.9% | — |
| GSO | 3.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 42.8% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 52.5% |
| CadEval | 54% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), Gemma 2 27B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 30.9% | — |
| Cybench | 20% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 43.6% | — |
| OSWorld | 35.8% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 60% | — |
Reasoning Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), Gemma 2 27B: 15.3 (#315)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 87.8% | 28.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | 1198 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 74% | 47.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.16 | 122.08 |
| LiveBench | 76.1% | 38.2% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.9% | — |
| SimpleBench | 46.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 28.6% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 4.2% | — |
| DTBench | — | 48% |
| LMCA | — | 7.1% |
| ForecastBench | 61.8 | — |
Math Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), Gemma 2 27B: 10.7 (#311)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | 1.4% |
| LiveBench Math | 79% | 26.5% |
| LMArena Math | 1337 | 1212 |
| MATH Level 5 | 91.2% | 27.9% |
| Omni-MATH | 33% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.1% | — |
Knowledge Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), Gemma 2 27B: 19.0 (#280)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 79.7% | 36.5% |
| Confabulations | 14.7% | 27.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1321 | 1172 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.4% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 60.8% | — |
| MMLU | — | 75.7% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), Gemma 2 27B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1169 | — |
| GeoBench | 68% | — |
| VPCT | 39% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 33.9% | — |
Multilingual Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), Gemma 2 27B: 38.6 (#226)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1296 | 1217 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1299 | 1221 |
| LMArena French | 1303 | 1247 |
| LMArena German | 1301 | 1209 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1267 | 1175 |
| LMArena Korean | 1249 | 1174 |
| LMArena Russian | 1311 | 1234 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1298 | 1228 |
Instruction Following Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), Gemma 2 27B: 60.5 (#249)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.3% | 58.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1352 | 1206 |
| IFEval | 83.4% | — |
Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), Gemma 2 27B: 37.3 (#218)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1373 | 1231 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 83.3% | — |
Writing & Preference Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), Gemma 2 27B: 44.2 (#225)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1314 | 1231 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1332 | 1241 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 1224 |
| LiveBench Language | 59.9% | 32.6% |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.1% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1412 | — |
| WildBench | 81.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Gemma 2 27B?
Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Gemma 2 27B better for coding?
Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.6 versus 34.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Gemma 2 27B share?
29 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 27B has 34.