Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Opus 5.5 vs Gemma 3 1B

Claude Opus 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 68.6 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic

68.6

Rank #3 Confirmed

Gemma 3 1B Google

21.1

Rank #353 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 5.5 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 5.5 leads 91.8 to 10.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 100% for Claude Opus 5.5 and 1.1% for Gemma 3 1B.
  • Gemma 3 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 5.5Gemma 3 1B
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index68.621.1
Released2026-09-222025-03-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$4—
Output $ / M tokens$20—
Results tracked444

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Opus 5.5: 71.9 (#3), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 3 1B
FrontierCode54.6%—
CursorBench57.8%—
LMArena WebDev1813—
FrontierSWE62.3%—
SciCode66.9%—
LMArena Coding1547—
MirrorCode77.4%—
ALE-Bench2,147—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 45.3 (#15), Gemma 3 1B: 13.7 (#152)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 3 1B
APEX-Agents73.5%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—7.2%
GDP.pdf30.6%—
Vending-Bench 29,235—

Reasoning Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 80.2 (#3), Gemma 3 1B: 19.2 (#264)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 3 1B
ARC-AGI-293.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)88.5%—
ARC-AGI-198.5%—
CritPt31.7%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
EBR-Bench71.4%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1535—
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 3 1B: 10.2 (#316)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 3 1B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%1.1%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)91.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 495%—
ProofBench100%—
LMArena Math1506—
FrontierMath Erdős2.9%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 66.4 (#10), Gemma 3 1B: 7.0 (#314)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 3 1B
GPQA Diamond90.6%19.9%
SimpleQA Verified72.2%—
LMArena Expert1547—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 5.5: 57.8 (#1), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Vision1321—
Blueprint-Bench 251.2%—
Furniture Assembly83.3%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 5.5: 59.1 (#2), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Non-English1507—
LMArena Chinese1588—
LMArena French1514—
LMArena Russian1520—
LMArena Spanish1507—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 5.5: 80.0 (#3), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Instruction Following1537—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 5.5: 47.1 (#19), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Longer Query1532—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 5.5: 78.2 (#3), Gemma 3 1B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Text1515—
LMArena Creative Writing1533—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2050—
LMArena Multi-Turn1499—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 5.5 better than Gemma 3 1B?

Claude Opus 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 68.6 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 5.5 and Gemma 3 1B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 5.5 has 44 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 1B has 4.

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