Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.1 vs Gemma 3 1B

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic

41.0

Rank #142 Confirmed

Gemma 3 1B Google

21.1

Rank #353 Reported

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher in 4 categories and Gemma 3 1B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude Opus 4.1 leads 42.0 to 7.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 68.9% for Claude Opus 4.1 and 1.1% for Gemma 3 1B.
  • Gemma 3 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.1Gemma 3 1B
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index41.021.1
Released2025-08-052025-03-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked484

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.4 (#73), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemma 3 1B
SWE-bench Verified73.3%—
LMArena WebDev1390—
WeirdML45.9%—
LMArena Coding1479—
ALE-Bench674.77—
AlgoTune1.34—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 35.0 (#41), Gemma 3 1B: 13.7 (#152)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemma 3 1B
Terminal-Bench38%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—7.2%
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 3 1B: 19.2 (#264)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemma 3 1B
Chess Puzzles7%0%
SimpleBench60%—
EnigmaEval7.2%—
EBR-Bench7.9%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1443—
Mystery Game Puzzles21%—
DTBench80%—
LMCA37.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index144.12—
ForecastBench62—

Math Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 22.3 (#277), Gemma 3 1B: 10.2 (#316)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemma 3 1B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202568.9%1.1%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)12.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
LMArena Math1431—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)7.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 42.0 (#101), Gemma 3 1B: 7.0 (#314)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemma 3 1B
GPQA Diamond77.3%19.9%
Humanity's Last Exam11.5%—
Confabulations17.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.8%—
LMArena Expert1439—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 26.8 (#119), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemma 3 1B
VPCT35%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 52.0 (#95), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Non-English1405—
LMArena Chinese1427—
LMArena French1431—
LMArena German1413—
LMArena Japanese1378—
LMArena Korean1380—
LMArena Russian1422—
LMArena Spanish1448—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 75.6 (#58), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Instruction Following1435—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#63), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Longer Query1455—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 62.4 (#74), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Text1419—
LMArena Creative Writing1412—
Short-Story Creative Writing84.7%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1444—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than Gemma 3 1B?

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.1 and Gemma 3 1B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.1 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 1B has 4.

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