Model comparison

Claude Opus 5 vs Gemma 1.1 7b IT

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.7 to 30.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 5 Anthropic

67.7

Rank #4 Confirmed

Gemma 1.1 7b IT Google

30.7

Rank #275 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 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 reasoning, where Claude Opus 5 leads 77.1 to 19.6.
  • Gemma 1.1 7b IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 5 and Gemma 1.1 7b IT specifications
Claude Opus 5Gemma 1.1 7b IT
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index67.730.7
Released2026-07-24—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked5719

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 67.0 (#5), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 31.0 (#279)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemma 1.1 7b IT
LMArena Coding15331084
DeepSWE73.6%—
FrontierCode53.4%—
CursorBench46.6%—
LMArena WebDev1694—
FrontierSWE52%—
SciCode56.4%—
WeirdML91.8%—
ALE-Bench2,165—
HumanEval+—35.4%
MBPP+—45%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 55.5 (#1), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemma 1.1 7b 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 7b IT: 19.6 (#235)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemma 1.1 7b IT
LMArena Hard Prompts15251071
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 7b IT: 29.5 (#217)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemma 1.1 7b IT
LMArena Math15331107
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 7b IT: 27.8 (#242)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemma 1.1 7b IT
LMArena Expert15581039
GPQA Diamond93.9%—
SimpleQA Verified59.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 51.1 (#6), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemma 1.1 7b 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 7b IT: 28.3 (#268)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemma 1.1 7b IT
LMArena Non-English15001052
LMArena Chinese15751060
LMArena French15221064
LMArena German15221054
LMArena Japanese1510971
LMArena Korean1526988
LMArena Russian15071046
LMArena Spanish15191049

Instruction Following Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.3 (#5), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 54.3 (#278)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemma 1.1 7b IT
LMArena Instruction Following15161057

Long Context Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 46.5 (#20), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 32.0 (#267)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemma 1.1 7b IT
LMArena Longer Query15161056

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.3 (#2), Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 30.6 (#283)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemma 1.1 7b IT
LMArena Text15061094
LMArena Creative Writing14911059
LMArena Multi-Turn14961040
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2133—
EQ-Bench 41385—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 5 better than Gemma 1.1 7b IT?

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.7 to 30.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 5 or Gemma 1.1 7b IT better for coding?

Claude Opus 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.0 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 5 and Gemma 1.1 7b IT share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 5 has 57 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 1.1 7b IT has 19.

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