Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Gemma 1.1 7b IT

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 31.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.2

Rank #20 Confirmed

Gemma 1.1 7b IT Google

31.3

Rank #277 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 1.1 7b IT in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 73.5 to 30.4.
  • Gemma 1.1 7b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Gemma 1.1 7b IT specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Gemma 1.1 7b IT
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index58.231.3
Released2026-02-04—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6819

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 31.5 (#284)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 1.1 7b IT
LMArena Coding15361084
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
LMArena WebDev1547—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—
HumanEval+—35.4%
MBPP+—45%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.1 (#4), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 1.1 7b IT
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
GBAEval44.1%—
LMArena Search1253—
METR Time Horizons78.9%—
Vending-Bench 28,018—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.8 (#23), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 20.5 (#238)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 1.1 7b IT
LMArena Hard Prompts15271071
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
Chess Puzzles17%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index155.24—
ForecastBench60—

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 63.0 (#31), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 32.0 (#220)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 28.3 (#247)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 1.1 7b IT
LMArena Expert15461039
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 1.1 7b IT
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 28.1 (#273)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 1.1 7b IT
LMArena Non-English14891052
LMArena Chinese15511061
LMArena French15131065
LMArena German15021054
LMArena Japanese1484971
LMArena Korean1464988
LMArena Russian14971046
LMArena Spanish15101049

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 54.0 (#283)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 1.1 7b IT
LMArena Instruction Following15231057

Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 32.1 (#272)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 1.1 7b IT
LMArena Longer Query15201056
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 30.4 (#288)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 1.1 7b IT
LMArena Text15031094
LMArena Creative Writing15051060
LMArena Multi-Turn15131040
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Gemma 1.1 7b IT?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 31.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Gemma 1.1 7b IT better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.2 versus 31.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Gemma 1.1 7b IT share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 1.1 7b IT has 19.

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