Model comparison
Claude Haiku 5.5 vs Gemma 4 31B IT
Claude Haiku 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.5 to 43.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Haiku 5.5 scores higher in 5 categories and Gemma 4 31B IT in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Claude Haiku 5.5 leads 73.6 to 43.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 98.9% for Claude Haiku 5.5 and 73.3% for Gemma 4 31B IT.
- Gemma 4 31B IT is cheaper at $0.09 / $0.34 per million input/output tokens, against $0.10 / $0.50 for Claude Haiku 5.5.
- Claude Haiku 5.5 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
- Gemma 4 31B IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | Gemma 4 31B IT | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 49.5 | 43.5 |
| Released | 2026-10-07 | 2026-04-02 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1M | 262K |
| Max output | 128K | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.10 | $0.09 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.50 | $0.34 |
| Results tracked | 9 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Haiku 5.5 leads
Claude Haiku 5.5: 49.2 (#50), Gemma 4 31B IT: 42.3 (#108)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | Gemma 4 31B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1587 | 1366 |
| SciCode | — | 43.4% |
| WeirdML | — | 52.3% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1459 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 925.5 |
Reasoning Claude Haiku 5.5 leads
Claude Haiku 5.5: 35.2 (#69), Gemma 4 31B IT: 27.2 (#122)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | Gemma 4 31B IT |
|---|---|---|
| NYT Connections (extended) | 65.7% | 70.6% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 63.5% |
| CritPt | — | 1.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 53% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1448 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 30% | — |
| DTBench | — | 82.7% |
| LMCA | — | 39.3% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 30.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 142.74 |
Math Claude Haiku 5.5 leads
Claude Haiku 5.5: 73.6 (#18), Gemma 4 31B IT: 43.2 (#81)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | Gemma 4 31B IT |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 98.9% | 73.3% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 75.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 46.3% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1465 |
Knowledge Claude Haiku 5.5 leads
Claude Haiku 5.5: 50.8 (#70), Gemma 4 31B IT: 37.9 (#151)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | Gemma 4 31B IT |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 89.6% | 75.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 23.8% | 10.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1465 |
Multimodal Claude Haiku 5.5 leads
Claude Haiku 5.5: 43.7 (#21), Gemma 4 31B IT: 41.6 (#34)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | Gemma 4 31B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1277 |
| Furniture Assembly | 47.5% | — |
| LMArena Document | — | 1425 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Haiku 5.5: —, Gemma 4 31B IT: 53.8 (#57)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | Gemma 4 31B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1431 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1476 |
| LMArena French | — | 1435 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1460 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1444 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Haiku 5.5: —, Gemma 4 31B IT: 75.5 (#61)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | Gemma 4 31B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1433 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Haiku 5.5: —, Gemma 4 31B IT: 44.2 (#71)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | Gemma 4 31B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1446 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Haiku 5.5: —, Gemma 4 31B IT: 60.5 (#96)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | Gemma 4 31B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1443 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1415 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1368 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1120 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1452 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Haiku 5.5 better than Gemma 4 31B IT?
Claude Haiku 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.5 to 43.5 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 5.5 or Gemma 4 31B IT?
Gemma 4 31B IT is cheaper. It lists at $0.09 per million input tokens and $0.34 per million output tokens; Claude Haiku 5.5 lists at $0.10 and $0.50.
Is Claude Haiku 5.5 or Gemma 4 31B IT better for coding?
Claude Haiku 5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.2 versus 42.3 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Claude Haiku 5.5 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks do Claude Haiku 5.5 and Gemma 4 31B IT share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Haiku 5.5 has 9 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 4 31B IT has 35.