Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.5 vs Gemma 3 1B

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic

50.5

Rank #47 Confirmed

Gemma 3 1B Google

21.1

Rank #353 Reported

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.5 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 4.5 leads 56.5 to 7.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 86.1% for Claude Opus 4.5 and 1.1% for Gemma 3 1B.
  • Gemma 3 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.5 and Gemma 3 1B specifications
Claude Opus 4.5Gemma 3 1B
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index50.521.1
Released2025-11-012025-03-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked694

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.8 (#27), Gemma 3 1B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemma 3 1B
SWE-bench Verified76.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)76.8%—
LMArena WebDev1494—
SWE-bench Multilingual70.7%—
GSO26.5%—
WeirdML63.7%—
LMArena Coding1504—
ALE-Bench1,025—
AlgoTune1.77—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 47.3 (#12), Gemma 3 1B: 13.7 (#152)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemma 3 1B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard77.5%7.2%
Terminal-Bench63.1%—
GDPval45.5%—
Remote Labor Index3.8%—
τ²-bench Airline84%—
τ²-bench Banking24.7%—
τ²-bench Retail79.6%—
τ²-bench Telecom92.3%—
Cybench82%—
DeepResearch Bench54.8%—
OSWorld66.3%—
BALROG43.5%—
LMArena Search1180—
METR Time Horizons75%—
Vending-Bench 24,967—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 42.6 (#51), Gemma 3 1B: 19.2 (#264)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemma 3 1B
Chess Puzzles12%0%
ARC-AGI-237.6%—
SimpleBench62%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)52.5%—
ARC-AGI-180%—
EnigmaEval11.9%—
EBR-Bench14.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1476—
Mystery Game Puzzles22%—
DTBench89.9%—
LMCA44.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index150.09—
ForecastBench60.7—

Math Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 38.6 (#132), Gemma 3 1B: 10.2 (#316)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemma 3 1B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202586.1%1.1%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)34.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 44.9%—
ProofBench36%—
LMArena Math1463—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)20.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 56.5 (#44), Gemma 3 1B: 7.0 (#314)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemma 3 1B
GPQA Diamond86%19.9%
Humanity's Last Exam25.2%—
SimpleQA Verified45.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.9%—
LMArena Expert1487—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 31.4 (#107), Gemma 3 1B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemma 3 1B
GeoBench75%—
VPCT40%—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1462—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.3 (#47), Gemma 3 1B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Non-English1438—
LMArena Chinese1470—
LMArena French1471—
LMArena German1449—
LMArena Japanese1416—
LMArena Korean1424—
LMArena Russian1447—
LMArena Spanish1458—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 77.5 (#19), Gemma 3 1B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Instruction Following1478—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 46.5 (#22), Gemma 3 1B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemma 3 1B
CL-bench21.1%—
LMArena Longer Query1480—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 68.1 (#28), Gemma 3 1B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Text1451—
LMArena Creative Writing1445—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1687—
LMArena Multi-Turn1466—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.5 better than Gemma 3 1B?

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.5 and Gemma 3 1B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 1B has 4.

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