Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs Gemma 3n E4b IT

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 37.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

43.1

Rank #100 Confirmed

Gemma 3n E4b IT Google

37.3

Rank #206 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 3n E4b IT 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 50.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 74.3% for Claude Opus 4 and 31.5% for Gemma 3n E4b IT.
  • Gemma 3n E4b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4 and Gemma 3n E4b IT specifications
Claude Opus 4Gemma 3n E4b IT
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index43.137.3
Released2025-05-22—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked5618

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 47.2 (#62), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 37.0 (#198)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Coding14421268
SWE-bench Verified70.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%—
Aider Polyglot72%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML43.7%—
AlgoTune1.33—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 34.8 (#42), Gemma 3n E4b IT: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemma 3n E4b IT
Cybench38%—
DeepResearch Bench46.8%—
LMArena Search1127—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 27.3 (#121), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 19.9 (#247)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemma 3n E4b IT
Kagi LLM Benchmark74.3%31.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts13991284
ARC-AGI-28.6%—
SimpleBench58.8%—
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 3n E4b IT: 35.1 (#188)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Math13901251
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 3n E4b IT: 34.2 (#198)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Expert13861246
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 3n E4b IT: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Vision1192—
GeoBench49%—
VPCT38%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 48.8 (#138), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 43.4 (#183)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Non-English13621285
LMArena Chinese13861309
LMArena French13721330
LMArena German13911311
LMArena Japanese13311272
LMArena Korean13211259
LMArena Russian13921288
LMArena Spanish13891305

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 77.1 (#28), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 66.1 (#210)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Instruction Following14061255
IFEval91.8%—

Long Context Too close to call

Claude Opus 4: 39.6 (#172), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 38.7 (#191)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Longer Query14221276
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 61.2 (#89), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 50.1 (#186)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Text13771306
LMArena Creative Writing13871287
LMArena Multi-Turn13961276
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1580—
WildBench85.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than Gemma 3n E4b IT?

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 37.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4 or Gemma 3n E4b IT better for coding?

Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.2 versus 37.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and Gemma 3n E4b IT share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3n E4b IT has 18.

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