Model comparison

Claude Opus 5 vs Gemma 1.1 2b IT

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.7 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 5 Anthropic

67.7

Rank #4 Confirmed

Gemma 1.1 2b IT Google

28.8

Rank #313 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 5 scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 1.1 2b IT in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 5 leads 77.1 to 18.2.
  • Gemma 1.1 2b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 5 and Gemma 1.1 2b IT specifications
Claude Opus 5Gemma 1.1 2b IT
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index67.728.8
Released2026-07-24—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked5716

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 67.0 (#5), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 29.6 (#294)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Coding15331034
DeepSWE73.6%—
FrontierCode53.4%—
CursorBench46.6%—
LMArena WebDev1694—
FrontierSWE52%—
SciCode56.4%—
WeirdML91.8%—
ALE-Bench2,165—
HumanEval+—17.7%
MBPP+—23.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 55.5 (#1), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemma 1.1 2b IT
APEX-Agents65.8%—
OSWorld 2.031.4%—
τ²-bench Banking48.7%—
PostTrainBench35%—
BALROG63.4%—
GBAEval79.6%—
GDP.pdf24%—
Vending-Bench 211,182—

Reasoning Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 77.1 (#3), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 18.2 (#268)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Hard Prompts15251005
ARC-AGI-290.4%—
SimpleBench80.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.3%—
ARC-AGI-197.5%—
CritPt29.1%—
Chess Puzzles42%—
EBR-Bench45.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles59%—
DTBench97.9%—
LMCA64.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.12—
Epoch Capabilities Index162.67—

Math Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 86.1 (#6), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 28.3 (#230)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Math15331047
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)85.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 473.2%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.9%—
ProofBench99%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 66.8 (#8), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 26.0 (#255)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Expert1558970
GPQA Diamond93.9%—
SimpleQA Verified59.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 51.1 (#6), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Vision1321—
Blueprint-Bench 230.4%—
Furniture Assembly60.8%—
LMArena Document1516—

Multilingual Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 58.8 (#3), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 24.7 (#284)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Non-English1500988
LMArena Chinese15751011
LMArena German1522944
LMArena Korean1526899
LMArena Russian1507990
LMArena French1522—
LMArena Japanese1510—
LMArena Spanish1519—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.3 (#5), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 50.1 (#294)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Instruction Following1516992

Long Context Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 46.5 (#20), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 30.5 (#281)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Longer Query15161003

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.3 (#2), Gemma 1.1 2b IT: 25.3 (#301)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemma 1.1 2b IT
LMArena Text15061022
LMArena Creative Writing1491998
LMArena Multi-Turn1496958
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2133—
EQ-Bench 41385—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 5 better than Gemma 1.1 2b IT?

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.7 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 5 or Gemma 1.1 2b IT better for coding?

Claude Opus 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.0 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 5 and Gemma 1.1 2b IT share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 5 has 57 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 1.1 2b IT has 16.

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