Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Gemma 3 1B

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.2

Rank #20 Confirmed

Gemma 3 1B Google

21.1

Rank #353 Reported

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 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 4.6 leads 61.9 to 7.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 94.4% for Claude Opus 4.6 and 1.1% for Gemma 3 1B.
  • Gemma 3 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Gemma 3 1B specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Gemma 3 1B
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index58.221.1
Released2026-02-042025-03-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked684

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), Gemma 3 1B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 3 1B
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
LMArena WebDev1547—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
LMArena Coding1536—
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.1 (#4), Gemma 3 1B: 13.7 (#152)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 3 1B
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—7.2%
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 3 1B: 19.2 (#264)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 3 1B
Chess Puzzles17%0%
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1527—
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 3 1B: 10.2 (#316)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26), Gemma 3 1B: 7.0 (#314)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 3 1B
GPQA Diamond90.5%19.9%
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—
LMArena Expert1546—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), Gemma 3 1B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), Gemma 3 1B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Non-English1489—
LMArena Chinese1551—
LMArena French1513—
LMArena German1502—
LMArena Japanese1484—
LMArena Korean1464—
LMArena Russian1497—
LMArena Spanish1510—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4), Gemma 3 1B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Instruction Following1523—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Gemma 3 1B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 3 1B
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—
LMArena Longer Query1520—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), Gemma 3 1B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Text1503—
LMArena Creative Writing1505—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—
LMArena Multi-Turn1513—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Gemma 3 1B?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Gemma 3 1B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 1B has 4.

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