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Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Gemma 4 26B A4B IT

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.3

Rank #300 Confirmed

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT Google

43.1

Rank #88 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads 45.7 to 13.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.7% for Claude 3 Opus and 82.2% for Gemma 4 26B A4B IT.
  • Gemma 4 26B A4B IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusGemma 4 26B A4B IT
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index29.343.1
Released2024-02-292026-04-02
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.0765
Output $ / M tokens—$0.26
Results tracked4628

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.4 (#261), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 38.8 (#156)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 4 26B A4B IT
WeirdML19.2%35.2%
LMArena Coding12641446
LMArena WebDev—1359
SciCode—40%
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
ALE-Bench—927.17
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.3 (#110), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 4 26B A4B IT
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.2 (#318), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 21.1 (#205)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 4 26B A4B IT
Chess Puzzles5%6%
LMArena Hard Prompts12461438
DTBench61.6%74.9%
LMCA17%29.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91141.85
SimpleBench23.5%—
CritPt—0%
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Claude 3 Opus: 13.9 (#293), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 45.7 (#61)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 4 26B A4B IT
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%82.2%
LMArena Math12731469
LiveBench Math43.6%—
MATH Level 537.5%—

Knowledge Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#262), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 45.6 (#79)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 4 26B A4B IT
GPQA Diamond47.2%73.2%
LMArena Expert12231447
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.2%
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Claude 3 Opus: 26.6 (#112), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 39.9 (#43)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Vision10231260

Multilingual Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.6 (#202), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 53.3 (#68)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Non-English12581422
LMArena Chinese12481495
LMArena French12741459
LMArena Russian12801434
LMArena Spanish12461415
LMArena German1258—
LMArena Japanese1204—
LMArena Korean1187—

Instruction Following Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.3 (#223), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 75.0 (#78)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Instruction Following12481420
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#197), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 43.6 (#87)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Longer Query12591427

Writing & Preference Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.4 (#208), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 58.8 (#110)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Text12621434
LMArena Creative Writing12351401
LMArena Multi-Turn12751442
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1305
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Gemma 4 26B A4B IT?

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Gemma 4 26B A4B IT better for coding?

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.8 versus 32.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT has 28.

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