Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Gemma 3 1B

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 20.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.4

Rank #154 Confirmed

Gemma 3 1B Google

20.7

Rank #348 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 4 categories and Gemma 3 1B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 39.7 to 7.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 79.7% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 19.9% for Gemma 3 1B.
  • Gemma 3 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Gemma 3 1B specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetGemma 3 1B
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index39.420.7
Released2025-02-242025-03-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked584

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 41.1 (#120), Gemma 3 1B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGemma 3 1B
SWE-bench Verified61%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%—
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
GSO3.8%—
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
LMArena Coding1361—
CadEval54%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.9 (#46), Gemma 3 1B: 13.5 (#144)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGemma 3 1B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—7.2%
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
Cybench20%—
DeepResearch Bench43.6%—
OSWorld35.8%—
METR Time Horizons60%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.7 (#252), Gemma 3 1B: 18.5 (#260)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGemma 3 1B
ARC-AGI-20.9%—
SimpleBench46.4%—
ARC-AGI-128.6%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
EnigmaEval4.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1333—
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16—
ForecastBench61.8—
LiveBench76.1%—

Math Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 35.7 (#137), Gemma 3 1B: 9.6 (#310)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGemma 3 1B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%1.1%
Omni-MATH33%—
LiveBench Math79%—
LMArena Math1336—
MATH Level 591.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—

Knowledge Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.7 (#117), Gemma 3 1B: 7.1 (#309)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGemma 3 1B
GPQA Diamond79.7%19.9%
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
MMLU-Pro78.4%—
Confabulations14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)60.8%—
LMArena Expert1321—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.1 (#90), Gemma 3 1B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGemma 3 1B
LMArena Vision1169—
GeoBench68%—
VPCT39%—
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.3 (#174), Gemma 3 1B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGemma 3 1B
LMArena Non-English1296—
LMArena Chinese1299—
LMArena French1302—
LMArena German1301—
LMArena Japanese1268—
LMArena Korean1249—
LMArena Russian1311—
LMArena Spanish1299—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 73.1 (#120), Gemma 3 1B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGemma 3 1B
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—
IFEval83.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1352—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.2 (#10), Gemma 3 1B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGemma 3 1B
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—
LMArena Longer Query1373—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.6 (#145), Gemma 3 1B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGemma 3 1B
LMArena Text1314—
LMArena Creative Writing1332—
Short-Story Creative Writing81.1%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1412—
WildBench81.4%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1339—
LiveBench Language59.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Gemma 3 1B?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 20.7 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Gemma 3 1B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 1B has 4.

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