Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Gemma 3n E4b IT

Gemma 3n E4b IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Gemma 3n E4b IT Google

37.3

Rank #206 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and Gemma 3n E4b IT in 8 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 3n E4b IT leads 35.1 to 14.8.
  • Gemma 3n E4b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 Opus and Gemma 3n E4b IT specifications
Claude 3 OpusGemma 3n E4b IT
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index29.537.3
Released2024-02-29—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4618

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 3n E4b IT leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 37.0 (#198)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Coding12641268
WeirdML19.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Gemma 3n E4b IT: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 3n E4b IT
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Gemma 3n E4b IT leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 19.9 (#247)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Hard Prompts12451284
SimpleBench23.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—31.5%
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
DTBench61.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA17%—
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Gemma 3n E4b IT leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 35.1 (#188)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Math12731251
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%—
LiveBench Math43.6%—
MATH Level 537.5%—

Knowledge Gemma 3n E4b IT leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 34.2 (#198)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Expert12231246
GPQA Diamond47.2%—
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Gemma 3n E4b IT: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Gemma 3n E4b IT leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 43.4 (#183)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Non-English12581285
LMArena Chinese12481309
LMArena French12751330
LMArena German12581311
LMArena Japanese12041272
LMArena Korean11871259
LMArena Russian12801288
LMArena Spanish12461305

Instruction Following Gemma 3n E4b IT leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 66.1 (#210)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Instruction Following12481255
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 38.7 (#191)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Longer Query12591276

Writing & Preference Gemma 3n E4b IT leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 50.1 (#186)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Text12621306
LMArena Creative Writing12351287
LMArena Multi-Turn12751276
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Gemma 3n E4b IT?

Gemma 3n E4b IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Gemma 3n E4b IT better for coding?

Gemma 3n E4b IT scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.0 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Gemma 3n E4b IT share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3n E4b IT has 18.

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