Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Gemma 3 4B

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 28.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.5

Rank #164 Confirmed

Gemma 3 4B Google

28.1

Rank #326 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 9 categories and Gemma 3 4B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 39.8 to 11.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 79.7% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 23.2% for Gemma 3 4B.
  • Gemma 3 4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Gemma 3 4B specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetGemma 3 4B
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index39.528.1
Released2025-02-242025-03-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.04
Output $ / M tokens—$0.08
Results tracked5822

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), Gemma 3 4B: 35.9 (#215)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGemma 3 4B
LMArena Coding13611230
SWE-bench Verified61%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%—
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
GSO3.8%—
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
CadEval54%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), Gemma 3 4B: 20.9 (#142)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGemma 3 4B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—19.6%
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
Cybench20%—
DeepResearch Bench43.6%—
OSWorld35.8%—
METR Time Horizons60%—

Reasoning Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), Gemma 3 4B: 13.2 (#335)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGemma 3 4B
LMArena Hard Prompts13331253
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16116.02
ARC-AGI-20.9%—
SimpleBench46.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—25.2%
ARC-AGI-128.6%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
EnigmaEval4.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
DTBench—50.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
LMCA—2.8%
ForecastBench61.8—
LiveBench76.1%—

Math Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), Gemma 3 4B: 16.8 (#292)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGemma 3 4B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%7.5%
LMArena Math13371239
Omni-MATH33%—
LiveBench Math79%—
MATH Level 591.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—

Knowledge Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), Gemma 3 4B: 11.8 (#299)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGemma 3 4B
GPQA Diamond79.7%23.2%
LMArena Expert13211223
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
MMLU-Pro78.4%—
Confabulations14.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—6.4%
GPQA (HELM)60.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), Gemma 3 4B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGemma 3 4B
LMArena Vision1169—
GeoBench68%—
VPCT39%—
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), Gemma 3 4B: 42.5 (#194)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGemma 3 4B
LMArena Non-English12961273
LMArena German13011281
LMArena Russian13111294
LMArena Chinese1299—
LMArena French1303—
LMArena Japanese1267—
LMArena Korean1249—
LMArena Spanish1298—

Instruction Following Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), Gemma 3 4B: 65.2 (#225)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGemma 3 4B
LMArena Instruction Following13521239
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—
IFEval83.4%—

Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), Gemma 3 4B: 38.7 (#194)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGemma 3 4B
LMArena Longer Query13731273
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—

Writing & Preference Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), Gemma 3 4B: 42.0 (#239)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetGemma 3 4B
LMArena Text13141291
LMArena Creative Writing13321271
EQ-Bench Creative Writing14121068
LMArena Multi-Turn13391255
Short-Story Creative Writing81.1%—
WildBench81.4%—
LiveBench Language59.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Gemma 3 4B?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 28.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Gemma 3 4B better for coding?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.6 versus 35.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Gemma 3 4B share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 4B has 22.

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