Model comparison

Claude Instant vs Gemma 2 27B

Gemma 2 27B has enough public results to be ranked (#312); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Claude Instant Anthropic

29.5

Unranked Sparse

Gemma 2 27B Google

29.4

Rank #312 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 1 category and Gemma 2 27B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Instant leads 19.6 to 15.3.
  • Gemma 2 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Instant and Gemma 2 27B specifications
Claude InstantGemma 2 27B
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index29.529.4
Released2023-08-092024-06-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—8K
Max output—2K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.65
Output $ / M tokens—$0.65
Results tracked734

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Gemma 2 27B: 34.1 (#246)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGemma 2 27B
BigCodeBench Instruct—42.8%
LiveBench Coding—36%
LMArena Coding—1211
BigCodeBench Complete—52.5%
HumanEval+50.6%—

Reasoning Claude Instant leads

Claude Instant: 19.6, Gemma 2 27B: 15.3 (#315)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGemma 2 27B
DTBench45.8%48%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.28122.08
LiveBench Reasoning—28.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1198
LiveBench Data Analysis—47.9%
LMCA—7.1%
LiveBench—38.2%

Math Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Gemma 2 27B: 10.7 (#311)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGemma 2 27B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—1.4%
LiveBench Math—26.5%
LMArena Math—1212
MATH Level 5—27.9%
GSM8K86.7%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Gemma 2 27B: 19.0 (#280)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGemma 2 27B
MMLU73.4%75.7%
GPQA Diamond—36.5%
Confabulations—27.1%
LMArena Expert—1172
ARC (AI2) Challenge86.3%—
TriviaQA78.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Gemma 2 27B: 38.6 (#226)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGemma 2 27B
LMArena Non-English—1217
LMArena Chinese—1221
LMArena French—1247
LMArena German—1209
LMArena Japanese—1175
LMArena Korean—1174
LMArena Russian—1234
LMArena Spanish—1228

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Gemma 2 27B: 60.5 (#249)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGemma 2 27B
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.1%
LMArena Instruction Following—1206

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Gemma 2 27B: 37.3 (#218)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGemma 2 27B
LMArena Longer Query—1231

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Gemma 2 27B: 44.2 (#225)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGemma 2 27B
LMArena Text—1231
LMArena Creative Writing—1241
LMArena Multi-Turn—1224
LiveBench Language—32.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Instant better than Gemma 2 27B?

Gemma 2 27B has enough public results to be ranked (#312); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Gemma 2 27B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 27B has 34.

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