Model comparison
Claude Instant vs Gemma 2 9B
Gemma 2 9B has enough public results to be ranked (#341); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 1 category and Gemma 2 9B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Instant leads 19.6 to 15.9.
- Gemma 2 9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Instant | Gemma 2 9B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 25.9 |
| Released | 2023-08-09 | 2024-06-24 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 34.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 22.5% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1173 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 40.6% |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |
Reasoning Claude Instant leads
Claude Instant: 19.6, Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | 119.83 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 15.2% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1171 |
| DTBench | 45.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 36.4% |
| LiveBench | — | 28.7% |
| PIQA | — | 83.7% |
Math Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 86.7% | 84.9% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 0.6% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 19.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1183 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 21% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 73.4% | 72.1% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 27.5% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1147 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| BoolQ | — | 85.7% |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1188 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1185 |
| LMArena French | — | 1190 |
| LMArena German | — | 1186 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1144 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1137 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1200 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1200 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 52.6% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1178 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1197 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1207 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1206 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 841 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1193 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 25.5% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Instant better than Gemma 2 9B?
Gemma 2 9B has enough public results to be ranked (#341); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Gemma 2 9B share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 9B has 35.