Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Gemma 3 4B

Claude 3 Sonnet and Gemma 3 4B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 28.1), 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 3 4B Google

28.1

Rank #326 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 3 categories and Gemma 3 4B in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3 Sonnet leads 21.1 to 11.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 40.6% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 23.2% for Gemma 3 4B.
  • Gemma 3 4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetGemma 3 4B
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index29.028.1
Released2024-02-292025-03-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.04
Output $ / M tokens—$0.08
Results tracked3022

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 3 4B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Gemma 3 4B: 35.9 (#215)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 3 4B
LMArena Coding12231230
WeirdML10.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: —, Gemma 3 4B: 20.9 (#142)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 3 4B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—19.6%

Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Gemma 3 4B: 13.2 (#335)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 3 4B
LMArena Hard Prompts11971253
DTBench53.6%50.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7116.02
Kagi LLM Benchmark—25.2%
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMCA—2.8%
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Gemma 3 4B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Gemma 3 4B: 16.8 (#292)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 3 4B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%7.5%
LMArena Math12131239
MATH Level 518.2%—

Knowledge Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Gemma 3 4B: 11.8 (#299)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 3 4B
GPQA Diamond40.6%23.2%
LMArena Expert11731223
Vectara Hallucination Rate—6.4%
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Gemma 3 4B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 3 4B
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Gemma 3 4B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Gemma 3 4B: 42.5 (#194)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 3 4B
LMArena Non-English12051273
LMArena German12041281
LMArena Russian12271294
LMArena Chinese1189—
LMArena French1229—
LMArena Japanese1131—
LMArena Korean1128—
LMArena Spanish1204—

Instruction Following Gemma 3 4B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Gemma 3 4B: 65.2 (#225)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 3 4B
LMArena Instruction Following11991239

Long Context Gemma 3 4B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Gemma 3 4B: 38.7 (#194)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 3 4B
LMArena Longer Query12111273

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Gemma 3 4B: 42.0 (#239)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 3 4B
LMArena Text12181291
LMArena Creative Writing11861271
LMArena Multi-Turn12271255
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1068

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Gemma 3 4B?

Claude 3 Sonnet and Gemma 3 4B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 28.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

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

Gemma 3 4B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

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

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 4B has 22.

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