Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Gemma 1.1 2b IT

Claude 3 Sonnet and Gemma 1.1 2b IT score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 29.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

Gemma 1.1 2b IT Google

29.3

Rank #313 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 5 categories and Gemma 1.1 2b IT in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 1.1 2b IT leads 30.8 to 10.7.
  • Gemma 1.1 2b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 Sonnet and Gemma 1.1 2b IT specifications
Claude 3 SonnetGemma 1.1 2b IT
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index29.029.3
Released2024-02-29—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3016

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.1 (#299)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Coding12231034
HumanEval+64%17.7%
MBPP+69.3%23.3%
WeirdML10.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—

Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 19.1 (#270)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Hard Prompts11971005
DTBench53.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7—
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Gemma 1.1 2b IT leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.8 (#232)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Math12131047
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%—
MATH Level 518.2%—

Knowledge Gemma 1.1 2b IT leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 26.5 (#258)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Expert1173970
GPQA Diamond40.6%—
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 24.6 (#289)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Non-English1205988
LMArena Chinese11891012
LMArena German1204944
LMArena Korean1128899
LMArena Russian1227990
LMArena French1229—
LMArena Japanese1131—
LMArena Spanish1204—

Instruction Following Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 49.9 (#299)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Instruction Following1199992

Long Context Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.6 (#286)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Longer Query12111003

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 25.1 (#306)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Text12181022
LMArena Creative Writing1186998
LMArena Multi-Turn1227959

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Gemma 1.1 2b IT?

Claude 3 Sonnet and Gemma 1.1 2b IT score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 29.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Gemma 1.1 2b IT better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (29.6 vs 30.1); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Gemma 1.1 2b IT share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 1.1 2b IT has 16.

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