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Model comparison

Claude Opus 5.5 vs Gemma 3n E4b IT

Claude Opus 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 68.6 to 37.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic

68.6

Rank #3 Confirmed

Gemma 3n E4b IT Google

37.3

Rank #206 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 5.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 3n E4b IT in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 5.5 leads 80.2 to 19.9.
  • Gemma 3n E4b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 5.5Gemma 3n E4b IT
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index68.637.3
Released2026-09-22—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$4—
Output $ / M tokens$20—
Results tracked4418

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 71.9 (#3), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 37.0 (#198)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Coding15471268
FrontierCode54.6%—
CursorBench57.8%—
LMArena WebDev1813—
FrontierSWE62.3%—
SciCode66.9%—
MirrorCode77.4%—
ALE-Bench2,147—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 5.5: 45.3 (#15), Gemma 3n E4b IT: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 3n E4b 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 3n E4b IT: 19.9 (#247)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Hard Prompts15351284
ARC-AGI-293.3%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—31.5%
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 3n E4b IT: 35.1 (#188)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Math15061251
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 3n E4b IT: 34.2 (#198)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Expert15471246
GPQA Diamond90.6%—
SimpleQA Verified72.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 5.5: 57.8 (#1), Gemma 3n E4b IT: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Vision1321—
Blueprint-Bench 251.2%—
Furniture Assembly83.3%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 59.1 (#2), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 43.4 (#183)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Non-English15071285
LMArena Chinese15881309
LMArena French15141330
LMArena Russian15201288
LMArena Spanish15071305
LMArena German—1311
LMArena Japanese—1272
LMArena Korean—1259

Instruction Following Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 80.0 (#3), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 66.1 (#210)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Instruction Following15371255

Long Context Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 47.1 (#19), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 38.7 (#191)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Longer Query15321276

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 78.2 (#3), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 50.1 (#186)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Text15151306
LMArena Creative Writing15331287
LMArena Multi-Turn14991276
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2050—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 5.5 better than Gemma 3n E4b IT?

Claude Opus 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 68.6 to 37.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 5.5 or Gemma 3n E4b IT better for coding?

Claude Opus 5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 71.9 versus 37.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 5.5 and Gemma 3n E4b IT share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 5.5 has 44 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3n E4b IT has 18.

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