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Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.1 vs Gemma 1.1 2b IT

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic

40.8

Rank #136 Confirmed

Gemma 1.1 2b IT Google

28.8

Rank #313 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher in 7 categories and Gemma 1.1 2b IT in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4.1 leads 62.6 to 25.3.
  • Gemma 1.1 2b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.1Gemma 1.1 2b IT
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index40.828.8
Released2025-08-05—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked4816

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.3 (#69), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 29.6 (#294)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Coding14791034
SWE-bench Verified73.3%—
LMArena WebDev1390—
WeirdML45.9%—
ALE-Bench674.77—
AlgoTune1.34—
HumanEval+—17.7%
MBPP+—23.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 34.8 (#38), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemma 1.1 2b IT
Terminal-Bench38%—
GDPval43.6%—
Cybench42%—
DeepResearch Bench48.3%—
LMArena Search1148—
METR Time Horizons66.8%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 31.6 (#70), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 18.2 (#268)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Hard Prompts14431005
SimpleBench60%—
Chess Puzzles7%—
EnigmaEval7.2%—
EBR-Bench7.9%—
Mystery Game Puzzles21%—
DTBench80%—
LMCA37.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index144.11—
ForecastBench62—

Math Gemma 1.1 2b IT leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 22.0 (#267), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 28.3 (#230)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Math14301047
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)12.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202568.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)7.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 41.9 (#93), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 26.0 (#255)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Expert1439970
GPQA Diamond77.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam11.5%—
Confabulations17.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 26.2 (#114), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemma 1.1 2b IT
VPCT35%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 52.1 (#90), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 24.7 (#284)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Non-English1405988
LMArena Chinese14271011
LMArena German1412944
LMArena Korean1381899
LMArena Russian1421990
LMArena French1432—
LMArena Japanese1378—
LMArena Spanish1448—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 75.8 (#53), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 50.1 (#294)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Instruction Following1436992

Long Context Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#60), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.5 (#281)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Longer Query14551003

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 62.6 (#70), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 25.3 (#301)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Text14191022
LMArena Creative Writing1412998
LMArena Multi-Turn1444958
Short-Story Creative Writing84.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than Gemma 1.1 2b IT?

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.1 or Gemma 1.1 2b IT better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.3 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.1 and Gemma 1.1 2b IT share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.1 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 1.1 2b IT has 16.

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