Model comparison
Claude Instant vs Gemma 3 4B
Gemma 3 4B has enough public results to be ranked (#320); 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 4B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Instant leads 18.8 to 12.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 45.8% for Claude Instant and 50.9% for Gemma 3 4B.
- Gemma 3 4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Instant | Gemma 3 4B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 27.9 |
| Released | 2023-08-09 | 2025-03-12 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.04 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.08 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemma 3 4B: 35.3 (#214)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1230 |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemma 3 4B: 20.7 (#134)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 19.6% |
Reasoning Claude Instant leads
Claude Instant: 18.8, Gemma 3 4B: 12.7 (#330)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 50.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.2 | 116.02 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 25.2% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1253 |
| LMCA | — | 2.8% |
Math Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemma 3 4B: 15.8 (#286)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 7.5% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1239 |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemma 3 4B: 11.8 (#294)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 23.2% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 6.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1223 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| MMLU | 73.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemma 3 4B: 42.7 (#189)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1273 |
| LMArena German | — | 1281 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1294 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemma 3 4B: 65.4 (#219)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1239 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemma 3 4B: 38.6 (#189)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1274 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemma 3 4B: 42.2 (#234)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 3 4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1291 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1270 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1255 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Instant better than Gemma 3 4B?
Gemma 3 4B has enough public results to be ranked (#320); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Gemma 3 4B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 4B has 22.