Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs Gemma 1.1 2b IT

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

43.1

Rank #100 Confirmed

Gemma 1.1 2b IT Google

29.3

Rank #313 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 1.1 2b IT in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4 leads 61.2 to 25.1.
  • Gemma 1.1 2b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4 and Gemma 1.1 2b IT specifications
Claude Opus 4Gemma 1.1 2b IT
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index43.129.3
Released2025-05-22—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked5616

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 47.2 (#62), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.1 (#299)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Coding14421034
SWE-bench Verified70.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%—
Aider Polyglot72%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML43.7%—
AlgoTune1.33—
HumanEval+—17.7%
MBPP+—23.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 34.8 (#42), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemma 1.1 2b IT
Cybench38%—
DeepResearch Bench46.8%—
LMArena Search1127—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 27.3 (#121), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 19.1 (#270)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Hard Prompts13991005
ARC-AGI-28.6%—
SimpleBench58.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark74.3%—
ARC-AGI-135.7%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
DTBench81.6%—
LMCA37.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index142.67—
ForecastBench61.1—

Math Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 42.0 (#86), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.8 (#232)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Math13901047
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202564.4%—
Omni-MATH61.6%—
MATH Level 585%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 44.0 (#88), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 26.5 (#258)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Expert1386970
GPQA Diamond76.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam10.7%—
MMLU-Pro87.5%—
Confabulations15.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)70.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 31.5 (#106), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Vision1192—
GeoBench49%—
VPCT38%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 48.8 (#138), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 24.6 (#289)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Non-English1362988
LMArena Chinese13861012
LMArena German1391944
LMArena Korean1321899
LMArena Russian1392990
LMArena French1372—
LMArena Japanese1331—
LMArena Spanish1389—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 77.1 (#28), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 49.9 (#299)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Instruction Following1406992
IFEval91.8%—

Long Context Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 39.6 (#172), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.6 (#286)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Longer Query14221003
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 61.2 (#89), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 25.1 (#306)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Text13771022
LMArena Creative Writing1387998
LMArena Multi-Turn1396959
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1580—
WildBench85.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than Gemma 1.1 2b IT?

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4 or Gemma 1.1 2b IT better for coding?

Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.2 versus 30.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and Gemma 1.1 2b IT share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 1.1 2b IT has 16.

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