Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.5 vs Gemma 3n E4b IT

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 37.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic

50.5

Rank #47 Confirmed

Gemma 3n E4b IT Google

37.3

Rank #206 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 3n E4b IT in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.5 leads 42.6 to 19.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 80.2% for Claude Opus 4.5 and 31.5% for Gemma 3n E4b IT.
  • Gemma 3n E4b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.5 and Gemma 3n E4b IT specifications
Claude Opus 4.5Gemma 3n E4b IT
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index50.537.3
Released2025-11-01—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6918

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.8 (#27), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 37.0 (#198)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Coding15041268
SWE-bench Verified76.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)76.8%—
LMArena WebDev1494—
SWE-bench Multilingual70.7%—
GSO26.5%—
WeirdML63.7%—
ALE-Bench1,025—
AlgoTune1.77—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 47.3 (#12), Gemma 3n E4b IT: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemma 3n E4b IT
Terminal-Bench63.1%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard77.5%—
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 3n E4b IT: 19.9 (#247)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemma 3n E4b IT
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.2%31.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts14761284
ARC-AGI-237.6%—
SimpleBench62%—
NYT Connections (extended)52.5%—
ARC-AGI-180%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
EnigmaEval11.9%—
EBR-Bench14.3%—
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 3n E4b IT: 35.1 (#188)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Math14631251
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)34.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 44.9%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202586.1%—
ProofBench36%—
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 3n E4b IT: 34.2 (#198)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Expert14871246
GPQA Diamond86%—
Humanity's Last Exam25.2%—
SimpleQA Verified45.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 31.4 (#107), Gemma 3n E4b IT: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemma 3n E4b IT
GeoBench75%—
VPCT40%—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1462—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.3 (#47), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 43.4 (#183)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Non-English14381285
LMArena Chinese14701309
LMArena French14711330
LMArena German14491311
LMArena Japanese14161272
LMArena Korean14241259
LMArena Russian14471288
LMArena Spanish14581305

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 77.5 (#19), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 66.1 (#210)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Instruction Following14781255

Long Context Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 46.5 (#22), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 38.7 (#191)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Longer Query14801276
CL-bench21.1%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 68.1 (#28), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 50.1 (#186)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Text14511306
LMArena Creative Writing14451287
LMArena Multi-Turn14661276
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1687—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.5 better than Gemma 3n E4b IT?

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 37.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.5 or Gemma 3n E4b IT better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 54.8 versus 37.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.5 and Gemma 3n E4b IT share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3n E4b IT has 18.

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