Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Gemma 3 1B

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 20.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #9 Confirmed

Gemma 3 1B Google

20.7

Rank #348 Reported

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher in 4 categories and Gemma 3 1B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 78.2 to 9.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 98.3% for Claude Opus 4.8 and 1.1% for Gemma 3 1B.
  • Gemma 3 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.8 and Gemma 3 1B specifications
Claude Opus 4.8Gemma 3 1B
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index60.720.7
Released2026-05-282025-03-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked654

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 60.2 (#9), Gemma 3 1B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemma 3 1B
DeepSWE59%—
FrontierCode46.5%—
LMArena WebDev1556—
SciCode53.5%—
GSO47.1%—
WeirdML82.9%—
LMArena Coding1491—
ALE-Bench1,564—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#10), Gemma 3 1B: 13.5 (#144)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemma 3 1B
APEX-Agents48.9%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—7.2%
OSWorld 2.020.6%—
Remote Labor Index8.3%—
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
DeepResearch Bench50.2%—
PostTrainBench33.8%—
GBAEval70.9%—
GDP.pdf24%—
LMArena Search1204—
Vending-Bench 25,787—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 64.6 (#14), Gemma 3 1B: 18.5 (#260)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemma 3 1B
Chess Puzzles34%0%
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench64.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.1%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt20.9%—
EnigmaEval23.5%—
EBR-Bench28.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1481—
Mystery Game Puzzles36%—
DTBench94.9%—
LMCA57.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench87.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
Epoch Capabilities Index158.3—
ForecastBench59.9—

Math Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.2 (#11), Gemma 3 1B: 9.6 (#310)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#26), Gemma 3 1B: 7.1 (#309)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemma 3 1B
GPQA Diamond91%19.9%
SimpleQA Verified53%—
LMArena Expert1501—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 43.2 (#20), Gemma 3 1B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Vision1295—
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1475—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.4 (#31), Gemma 3 1B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Non-English1450—
LMArena Chinese1509—
LMArena French1482—
LMArena German1470—
LMArena Japanese1440—
LMArena Korean1432—
LMArena Russian1476—
LMArena Spanish1470—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.6 (#22), Gemma 3 1B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Instruction Following1476—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#37), Gemma 3 1B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Longer Query1482—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.1 (#17), Gemma 3 1B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Text1460—
LMArena Creative Writing1453—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41281—
LMArena Multi-Turn1476—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Gemma 3 1B?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 20.7 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and Gemma 3 1B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 1B has 4.

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