Model comparison
Claude 3 Haiku vs Gemma 2 9B
Claude 3 Haiku and Gemma 2 9B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (25.9 vs 25.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Haiku scores higher in 3 categories and Gemma 2 9B in 5 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3 Haiku leads 17.3 to 9.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 50.1% for Claude 3 Haiku and 40.6% for Gemma 2 9B.
- Gemma 2 9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Haiku | Gemma 2 9B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 25.9 | 25.9 |
| Released | 2024-03-07 | 2024-06-24 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 37 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemma 2 9B leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 26.4 (#325), Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 39.4% | 34.7% |
| LMArena Coding | 1199 | 1173 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 50.1% | 40.6% |
| WeirdML | 9.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 22.5% |
| CadEval | 12% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 68.9% | — |
| MBPP+ | 68.8% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Claude 3 Haiku: 16.3 (#307), Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1174 | 1171 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.35 | 119.83 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 34.2% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 15.2% |
| DTBench | 50.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 36.4% |
| LMCA | 8.8% | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.2 | — |
| LiveBench | — | 28.7% |
| PIQA | — | 83.7% |
| WinoGrande | 74.2% | — |
Math Too close to call
Claude 3 Haiku: 9.8 (#319), Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.8% | 0.6% |
| LMArena Math | 1188 | 1183 |
| MATH Level 5 | 14.9% | 21% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 19.8% |
| GSM8K | — | 84.9% |
Knowledge Claude 3 Haiku leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 17.3 (#285), Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 36.3% | 27.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1148 | 1147 |
| MMLU | 73.8% | 72.1% |
| Confabulations | 34.2% | — |
| BoolQ | — | 85.7% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Haiku: 23.6 (#128), Gemma 2 9B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 950 | — |
| ScienceQA | 72% | — |
Multilingual Too close to call
Claude 3 Haiku: 36.0 (#243), Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1178 | 1188 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1155 | 1185 |
| LMArena French | 1195 | 1190 |
| LMArena German | 1174 | 1186 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1102 | 1144 |
| LMArena Korean | 1109 | 1137 |
| LMArena Russian | 1204 | 1200 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1166 | 1200 |
Instruction Following Claude 3 Haiku leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 61.3 (#247), Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1173 | 1178 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 52.6% |
Long Context Too close to call
Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#237), Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1190 | 1197 |
Writing & Preference Gemma 2 9B leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 29.7 (#291), Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1195 | 1207 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1157 | 1206 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 717 | 841 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1190 | 1193 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 25.5% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Haiku better than Gemma 2 9B?
Claude 3 Haiku and Gemma 2 9B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (25.9 vs 25.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Claude 3 Haiku or Gemma 2 9B better for coding?
Gemma 2 9B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.4 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Haiku and Gemma 2 9B share?
25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Haiku has 37 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 9B has 35.