Model comparison
Claude Opus 4.8 vs Gemma 2B
Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher in 7 categories and Gemma 2B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 78.4 to 30.0.
- Gemma 2B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Opus 4.8 | Gemma 2B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 60.7 | 29.6 |
| Released | 2026-05-28 | 2024-02-21 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1M | — |
| Max output | 128K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $5 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $25 | — |
| Results tracked | 65 | 23 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Opus 4.8 leads
Claude Opus 4.8: 59.9 (#12), Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1490 | 1010 |
| DeepSWE | 59% | — |
| FrontierCode | 46.5% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1556 | — |
| SciCode | 53.5% | — |
| GSO | 47.1% | — |
| WeirdML | 82.9% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 1,564 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 20.7% |
| MBPP+ | — | 34.1% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#11), Gemma 2B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 48.9% | — |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 20.6% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 8.3% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 39.7% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 50.2% | — |
| PostTrainBench | 33.8% | — |
| GBAEval | 70.9% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 24% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1204 | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 5,787 | — |
Reasoning Claude Opus 4.8 leads
Claude Opus 4.8: 64.7 (#16), Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1482 | 989 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 158.21 | 94.2 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 72.1% | — |
| SimpleBench | 64.8% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 88.8% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 91.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 92.5% | — |
| CritPt | 20.9% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 34% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 23.5% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 28.6% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 36% | — |
| DTBench | 94.9% | — |
| LMCA | 57.5% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 87.5% | — |
| Bench to the Future 3 | 0.14 | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 35.2% |
| ForecastBench | 59.9 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 71.4% |
| PIQA | — | 77.3% |
| WinoGrande | — | 65.4% |
Math Claude Opus 4.8 leads
Claude Opus 4.8: 78.4 (#13), Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1487 | 1009 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 80% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 56.1% | — |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 91.8% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 98.3% | — |
| ProofBench | 69% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 47.2% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 31.3% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 17.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#29), Gemma 2B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 91% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 53% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1502 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 42.1% |
| BoolQ | — | 69.4% |
| MMLU | — | 42.3% |
| TriviaQA | — | 53.2% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Opus 4.8: 42.9 (#26), Gemma 2B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1294 | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 14.5% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 42.5% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1475 | — |
Multilingual Claude Opus 4.8 leads
Claude Opus 4.8: 55.2 (#33), Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1450 | 958 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1507 | 986 |
| LMArena Russian | 1474 | 937 |
| LMArena French | 1481 | — |
| LMArena German | 1472 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1440 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1432 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1466 | — |
Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.8 leads
Claude Opus 4.8: 77.4 (#24), Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1476 | 970 |
Long Context Claude Opus 4.8 leads
Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#35), Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1483 | 981 |
Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.8 leads
Claude Opus 4.8: 72.0 (#16), Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1461 | 1002 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1454 | 987 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1476 | 945 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1840 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1281 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Gemma 2B?
Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude Opus 4.8 or Gemma 2B better for coding?
Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and Gemma 2B share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2B has 23.