Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.1 vs Gemma 2B

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic

41.0

Rank #142 Confirmed

Gemma 2B Google

29.6

Rank #307 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher in 6 categories and Gemma 2B in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4.1 leads 62.4 to 24.0.
  • Gemma 2B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.1Gemma 2B
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index41.029.6
Released2025-08-052024-02-21
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked4823

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.4 (#73), Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemma 2B
LMArena Coding14791010
SWE-bench Verified73.3%—
LMArena WebDev1390—
WeirdML45.9%—
ALE-Bench674.77—
AlgoTune1.34—
HumanEval+—20.7%
MBPP+—34.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 35.0 (#41), Gemma 2B: —

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

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 32.2 (#76), Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemma 2B
LMArena Hard Prompts1443989
Epoch Capabilities Index144.1294.2
SimpleBench60%—
Chess Puzzles7%—
EnigmaEval7.2%—
EBR-Bench7.9%—
Mystery Game Puzzles21%—
DTBench80%—
LMCA37.1%—
BIG-Bench Hard—35.2%
ForecastBench62—
HellaSwag—71.4%
PIQA—77.3%
WinoGrande—65.4%

Math Gemma 2B leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 22.3 (#277), Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemma 2B
LMArena Math14311009
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%—
GSM8K—17.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 42.0 (#101), Gemma 2B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemma 2B
GPQA Diamond77.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam11.5%—
Confabulations17.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.8%—
LMArena Expert1439—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—42.1%
BoolQ—69.4%
MMLU—42.3%
TriviaQA—53.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 26.8 (#119), Gemma 2B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemma 2B
VPCT35%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 52.0 (#95), Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemma 2B
LMArena Non-English1405958
LMArena Chinese1427986
LMArena Russian1422937
LMArena French1431—
LMArena German1413—
LMArena Japanese1378—
LMArena Korean1380—
LMArena Spanish1448—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 75.6 (#58), Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemma 2B
LMArena Instruction Following1435970

Long Context Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#63), Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemma 2B
LMArena Longer Query1455981

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 62.4 (#74), Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemma 2B
LMArena Text14191002
LMArena Creative Writing1412987
LMArena Multi-Turn1444945
Short-Story Creative Writing84.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than Gemma 2B?

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.1 or Gemma 2B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.4 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.1 and Gemma 2B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.1 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2B has 23.

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