Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Gemma 3 4B

Claude 3 Opus is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.3 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.3

Rank #300 Confirmed

Gemma 3 4B Google

27.9

Rank #320 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 4 categories and Gemma 3 4B in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3 Opus leads 24.5 to 11.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 47.2% for Claude 3 Opus and 23.2% for Gemma 3 4B.
  • Gemma 3 4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusGemma 3 4B
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index29.327.9
Released2024-02-292025-03-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.04
Output $ / M tokens—$0.08
Results tracked4622

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 3 4B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.4 (#261), Gemma 3 4B: 35.3 (#214)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 3 4B
LMArena Coding12641230
WeirdML19.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.3 (#110), Gemma 3 4B: 20.7 (#134)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 3 4B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—19.6%
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.2 (#318), Gemma 3 4B: 12.7 (#330)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 3 4B
Chess Puzzles5%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts12461253
DTBench61.6%50.9%
LMCA17%2.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91116.02
SimpleBench23.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—25.2%
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Gemma 3 4B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 13.9 (#293), Gemma 3 4B: 15.8 (#286)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 3 4B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%7.5%
LMArena Math12731239
LiveBench Math43.6%—
MATH Level 537.5%—

Knowledge Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#262), Gemma 3 4B: 11.8 (#294)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 3 4B
GPQA Diamond47.2%23.2%
LMArena Expert12231223
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—6.4%
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 26.6 (#112), Gemma 3 4B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 3 4B
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Gemma 3 4B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.6 (#202), Gemma 3 4B: 42.7 (#189)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 3 4B
LMArena Non-English12581273
LMArena German12581281
LMArena Russian12801294
LMArena Chinese1248—
LMArena French1274—
LMArena Japanese1204—
LMArena Korean1187—
LMArena Spanish1246—

Instruction Following Gemma 3 4B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.3 (#223), Gemma 3 4B: 65.4 (#219)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 3 4B
LMArena Instruction Following12481239
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#197), Gemma 3 4B: 38.6 (#189)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 3 4B
LMArena Longer Query12591274

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.4 (#208), Gemma 3 4B: 42.2 (#234)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 3 4B
LMArena Text12621291
LMArena Creative Writing12351270
LMArena Multi-Turn12751255
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1068
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Gemma 3 4B?

Claude 3 Opus is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.3 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Gemma 3 4B better for coding?

Gemma 3 4B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.3 versus 32.4 in the Noometry coding category.

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

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 4B has 22.

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