Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs Gemma 2B

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

43.1

Rank #100 Confirmed

Gemma 2B Google

29.6

Rank #307 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 7 categories and Gemma 2B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4 leads 61.2 to 24.0.
  • Gemma 2B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4 and Gemma 2B specifications
Claude Opus 4Gemma 2B
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index43.129.6
Released2025-05-222024-02-21
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked5623

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 47.2 (#62), Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemma 2B
LMArena Coding14421010
SWE-bench Verified70.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%—
Aider Polyglot72%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML43.7%—
AlgoTune1.33—
HumanEval+—20.7%
MBPP+—34.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 34.8 (#42), Gemma 2B: —

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

Reasoning Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 27.3 (#121), Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemma 2B
LMArena Hard Prompts1399989
Epoch Capabilities Index142.6794.2
ARC-AGI-28.6%—
SimpleBench58.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark74.3%—
ARC-AGI-135.7%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
DTBench81.6%—
LMCA37.4%—
BIG-Bench Hard—35.2%
ForecastBench61.1—
HellaSwag—71.4%
PIQA—77.3%
WinoGrande—65.4%

Math Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 42.0 (#86), Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemma 2B
LMArena Math13901009
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202564.4%—
Omni-MATH61.6%—
MATH Level 585%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—
GSM8K—17.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 44.0 (#88), Gemma 2B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemma 2B
GPQA Diamond76.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam10.7%—
MMLU-Pro87.5%—
Confabulations15.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)70.8%—
LMArena Expert1386—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—42.1%
BoolQ—69.4%
MMLU—42.3%
TriviaQA—53.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 31.5 (#106), Gemma 2B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemma 2B
LMArena Vision1192—
GeoBench49%—
VPCT38%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 48.8 (#138), Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemma 2B
LMArena Non-English1362958
LMArena Chinese1386986
LMArena Russian1392937
LMArena French1372—
LMArena German1391—
LMArena Japanese1331—
LMArena Korean1321—
LMArena Spanish1389—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 77.1 (#28), Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemma 2B
LMArena Instruction Following1406970
IFEval91.8%—

Long Context Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 39.6 (#172), Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemma 2B
LMArena Longer Query1422981
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 61.2 (#89), Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemma 2B
LMArena Text13771002
LMArena Creative Writing1387987
LMArena Multi-Turn1396945
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1580—
WildBench85.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than Gemma 2B?

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4 or Gemma 2B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.2 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and Gemma 2B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2B has 23.

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