Model comparison
Claude Instant vs Gemma 3 12B
Gemma 3 12B has enough public results to be ranked (#262); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 1 category and Gemma 3 12B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Instant leads 19.6 to 15.7.
- Gemma 3 12B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Instant | Gemma 3 12B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 32.1 |
| Released | 2023-08-09 | 2025-03-12 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.05 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 24 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemma 3 12B: 31.7 (#280)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 17.4% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1281 |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemma 3 12B: 25.5 (#108)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 30.4% |
Reasoning Claude Instant leads
Claude Instant: 19.6, Gemma 3 12B: 15.7 (#313)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 48.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | 123.5 |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1309 |
| LMCA | — | 4.5% |
Math Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemma 3 12B: 22.3 (#279)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 16.7% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1307 |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemma 3 12B: 26.5 (#257)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 39.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1248 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| MMLU | 73.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemma 3 12B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| MindCube | — | 46.7% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemma 3 12B: 45.7 (#165)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1318 |
| LMArena German | — | 1370 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1335 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemma 3 12B: 68.6 (#186)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1299 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemma 3 12B: 40.0 (#162)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1317 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemma 3 12B: 47.5 (#209)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1334 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1331 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1126 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1334 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Instant better than Gemma 3 12B?
Gemma 3 12B has enough public results to be ranked (#262); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Gemma 3 12B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 12B has 24.