Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.7 vs Gemma 2 9B

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #19 Confirmed

Gemma 2 9B Google

25.9

Rank #341 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 2 9B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.7 leads 66.7 to 9.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 97.8% for Claude Opus 4.7 and 0.6% for Gemma 2 9B.
  • Gemma 2 9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.7 and Gemma 2 9B specifications
Claude Opus 4.7Gemma 2 9B
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index58.325.9
Released2026-04-142024-06-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6635

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 59.6 (#13), Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Gemma 2 9B
LMArena Coding15181173
SWE-bench Verified83.5%—
FrontierCode38.5%—
LMArena WebDev1558—
SciCode54.5%—
GSO44.1%—
WeirdML76.4%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—34.7%
LiveBench Coding—22.5%
MirrorCode31.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete—40.6%
ALE-Bench1,323—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 47.9 (#10), Gemma 2 9B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Gemma 2 9B
Terminal-Bench80.2%—
APEX-Agents49.2%—
OSWorld 2.018.2%—
τ²-bench Banking40.2%—
PostTrainBench28.6%—
ExploitBench26.5%—
GBAEval43.8%—
GDP.pdf21%—
LMArena Search1233—
Vending-Bench 210,937—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 53.8 (#29), Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Gemma 2 9B
LMArena Hard Prompts15061171
Epoch Capabilities Index156.25119.83
ARC-AGI-275.8%—
SimpleBench61.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)39%—
ARC-AGI-193.5%—
CritPt12%—
Chess Puzzles30%—
Thematic Generalization72.8%—
EBR-Bench19%—
LiveBench Reasoning—15.2%
Mystery Game Puzzles28%—
DTBench94.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—36.4%
LMCA52.2%—
ForecastBench60.3—
LiveBench—28.7%
PIQA—83.7%

Math Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 66.7 (#26), Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 62.6 (#23), Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Gemma 2 9B
GPQA Diamond90.2%27.5%
LMArena Expert15211147
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
SimpleQA Verified51.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
BoolQ—85.7%
MMLU—72.1%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 41.2 (#38), Gemma 2 9B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Gemma 2 9B
LMArena Vision1316—
Blueprint-Bench 224.5%—
Furniture Assembly33.3%—
LMArena Document1495—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 57.3 (#10), Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Gemma 2 9B
LMArena Non-English14801188
LMArena Chinese15311185
LMArena French15031190
LMArena German14951186
LMArena Japanese14721144
LMArena Korean14641137
LMArena Russian14941200
LMArena Spanish14951200

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 78.4 (#10), Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Gemma 2 9B
LMArena Instruction Following14981178
LiveBench Instruction Following—52.6%

Long Context Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 46.2 (#25), Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Gemma 2 9B
LMArena Longer Query15051197

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 75.1 (#8), Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Gemma 2 9B
LMArena Text14901207
LMArena Creative Writing14861206
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1914841
LMArena Multi-Turn15051193
EQ-Bench 41311—
LiveBench Language—25.5%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than Gemma 2 9B?

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.7 or Gemma 2 9B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.6 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.7 and Gemma 2 9B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.7 has 66 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 9B has 35.

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