Model comparison

Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Gemma 3 4B

Claude Haiku 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index. Gemma 3 4B costs 40× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Haiku 4.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic

39.3

Rank #155 Confirmed

Gemma 3 4B Google

27.9

Rank #320 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Haiku 4.5 scores higher in 9 categories and Gemma 3 4B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Haiku 4.5 leads 43.0 to 15.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 66.7% for Claude Haiku 4.5 and 7.5% for Gemma 3 4B.
  • Gemma 3 4B is cheaper at $0.04 / $0.08 per million input/output tokens, against $1 / $5 for Claude Haiku 4.5.
  • Claude Haiku 4.5 accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 131K.
  • Gemma 3 4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Haiku 4.5 and Gemma 3 4B specifications
Claude Haiku 4.5Gemma 3 4B
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index39.327.9
Released2025-10-152025-03-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K131K
Max output64K4K
Input $ / M tokens$1$0.04
Output $ / M tokens$5$0.08
Results tracked5322

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Category by category

Coding Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 43.9 (#71), Gemma 3 4B: 35.3 (#214)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Gemma 3 4B
LMArena Coding14541230
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)66.6%—
LMArena WebDev1330—
SWE-bench Multilingual64.7%—
SciCode43.3%—
WeirdML45.4%—
ALE-Bench653.48—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 33.5 (#50), Gemma 3 4B: 20.7 (#134)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Gemma 3 4B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard68.7%19.6%
Terminal-Bench35.5%—
DeepResearch Bench45.5%—
BALROG31.2%—
ExploitBench13.7%—
Vending-Bench 2458.89—

Reasoning Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 15.1 (#310), Gemma 3 4B: 12.7 (#330)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Gemma 3 4B
Chess Puzzles8%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14201253
DTBench73.6%50.9%
LMCA30.9%2.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index142.42116.02
ARC-AGI-24%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—25.2%
NYT Connections (extended)14.3%—
ARC-AGI-147.7%—
CritPt0%—
ForecastBench61.4—

Math Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 43.0 (#69), Gemma 3 4B: 15.8 (#286)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Gemma 3 4B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202566.7%7.5%
LMArena Math13951239
Omni-MATH56.1%—
MATH Level 596.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)5.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 37.6 (#146), Gemma 3 4B: 11.8 (#294)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Gemma 3 4B
GPQA Diamond71.2%23.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.8%6.4%
LMArena Expert14431223
SimpleQA Verified13.2%—
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
GPQA (HELM)60.5%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Haiku 4.5: 27.0 (#111), Gemma 3 4B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Gemma 3 4B
Blueprint-Bench 20%—
LMArena Document1420—

Multilingual Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 50.1 (#124), Gemma 3 4B: 42.7 (#189)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Gemma 3 4B
LMArena Non-English13761273
LMArena German13771281
LMArena Russian13801294
LMArena Chinese1415—
LMArena French1408—
LMArena Japanese1339—
LMArena Korean1346—
LMArena Spanish1420—

Instruction Following Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 71.6 (#144), Gemma 3 4B: 65.4 (#219)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Gemma 3 4B
LMArena Instruction Following14141239
IFEval80.1%—

Long Context Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 43.6 (#86), Gemma 3 4B: 38.6 (#189)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Gemma 3 4B
LMArena Longer Query14271274

Writing & Preference Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 58.1 (#119), Gemma 3 4B: 42.2 (#234)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Gemma 3 4B
LMArena Text13961291
LMArena Creative Writing13711270
LMArena Multi-Turn14091255
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1068
WildBench83.9%—
EQ-Bench 41064—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Haiku 4.5 better than Gemma 3 4B?

Claude Haiku 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index. Gemma 3 4B costs 40× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Haiku 4.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Gemma 3 4B?

Gemma 3 4B is cheaper. It lists at $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.08 per million output tokens; Claude Haiku 4.5 lists at $1 and $5.

Is Claude Haiku 4.5 or Gemma 3 4B better for coding?

Claude Haiku 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.9 versus 35.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Haiku 4.5 does, with 200K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Haiku 4.5 and Gemma 3 4B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Haiku 4.5 has 53 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 4B has 22.

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