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Model comparison

Claude Opus 5.5 vs Gemma 1.1 7b IT

Claude Opus 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 68.6 to 31.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic

68.6

Rank #3 Confirmed

Gemma 1.1 7b IT Google

31.3

Rank #277 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 5.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 1.1 7b IT in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 5.5 leads 91.8 to 32.0.
  • Gemma 1.1 7b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 5.5Gemma 1.1 7b IT
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index68.631.3
Released2026-09-22—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$4—
Output $ / M tokens$20—
Results tracked4419

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 71.9 (#3), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 31.5 (#284)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 1.1 7b IT
LMArena Coding15471084
FrontierCode54.6%—
CursorBench57.8%—
LMArena WebDev1813—
FrontierSWE62.3%—
SciCode66.9%—
MirrorCode77.4%—
ALE-Bench2,147—
HumanEval+—35.4%
MBPP+—45%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 5.5: 45.3 (#15), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 1.1 7b IT
APEX-Agents73.5%—
GDP.pdf30.6%—
Vending-Bench 29,235—

Reasoning Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 80.2 (#3), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 20.5 (#238)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 1.1 7b IT
LMArena Hard Prompts15351071
ARC-AGI-293.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)88.5%—
ARC-AGI-198.5%—
CritPt31.7%—
EBR-Bench71.4%—
Mystery Game Puzzles71%—
DTBench98.9%—
LMCA68.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index167.33—

Math Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 91.8 (#3), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 32.0 (#220)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 1.1 7b IT
LMArena Math15061107
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)91.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 495%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench100%—
FrontierMath Erdős2.9%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 66.4 (#10), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 28.3 (#247)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 1.1 7b IT
LMArena Expert15471039
GPQA Diamond90.6%—
SimpleQA Verified72.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 5.5: 57.8 (#1), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 1.1 7b IT
LMArena Vision1321—
Blueprint-Bench 251.2%—
Furniture Assembly83.3%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 59.1 (#2), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 28.1 (#273)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 1.1 7b IT
LMArena Non-English15071052
LMArena Chinese15881061
LMArena French15141065
LMArena Russian15201046
LMArena Spanish15071049
LMArena German—1054
LMArena Japanese—971
LMArena Korean—988

Instruction Following Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 80.0 (#3), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 54.0 (#283)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 1.1 7b IT
LMArena Instruction Following15371057

Long Context Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 47.1 (#19), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 32.1 (#272)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 1.1 7b IT
LMArena Longer Query15321056

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 78.2 (#3), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 30.4 (#288)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 1.1 7b IT
LMArena Text15151094
LMArena Creative Writing15331060
LMArena Multi-Turn14991040
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2050—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 5.5 better than Gemma 1.1 7b IT?

Claude Opus 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 68.6 to 31.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 5.5 or Gemma 1.1 7b IT better for coding?

Claude Opus 5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 71.9 versus 31.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 5.5 and Gemma 1.1 7b IT share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 5.5 has 44 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 1.1 7b IT has 19.

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