Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4 vs Gemma 3 1B

Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 20.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic

40.6

Rank #139 Confirmed

Gemma 3 1B Google

20.7

Rank #348 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher in 4 categories and Gemma 3 1B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude Sonnet 4 leads 41.6 to 7.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 71.1% for Claude Sonnet 4 and 1.1% for Gemma 3 1B.
  • Gemma 3 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4 and Gemma 3 1B specifications
Claude Sonnet 4Gemma 3 1B
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index40.620.7
Released2025-05-222025-03-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$3—
Output $ / M tokens$15—
Results tracked584

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 44.0 (#70), Gemma 3 1B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Gemma 3 1B
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)64.9%—
Aider Polyglot61.3%—
SciCode40%—
GSO4.9%—
WeirdML46.1%—
LMArena Coding1414—
ALE-Bench655.35—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 38.3 (#29), Gemma 3 1B: 13.5 (#144)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Gemma 3 1B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—7.2%
TheAgentCompany33.1%—
Cybench35%—
DeepResearch Bench46.6%—
OSWorld43.9%—
METR Time Horizons62%—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 23.0 (#169), Gemma 3 1B: 18.5 (#260)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Gemma 3 1B
ARC-AGI-25.9%—
SimpleBench45.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73%—
ARC-AGI-140%—
CritPt0.3%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
EnigmaEval3.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1372—
DTBench77.1%—
LMCA29%—
Epoch Capabilities Index141.69—
ForecastBench60.2—

Math Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 41.5 (#71), Gemma 3 1B: 9.6 (#310)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Gemma 3 1B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%1.1%
Omni-MATH60.2%—
LMArena Math1375—
MATH Level 584.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 41.6 (#99), Gemma 3 1B: 7.1 (#309)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Gemma 3 1B
GPQA Diamond79.2%19.9%
Humanity's Last Exam7.8%—
MMLU-Pro84.3%—
Confabulations13.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.3%—
GPQA (HELM)70.6%—
LMArena Expert1371—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 25.6 (#116), Gemma 3 1B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Vision1191—
GeoBench37%—
VPCT34%—
MindCube44.8%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 46.9 (#151), Gemma 3 1B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Non-English1333—
LMArena Chinese1351—
LMArena French1364—
LMArena German1331—
LMArena Japanese1301—
LMArena Korean1293—
LMArena Russian1355—
LMArena Spanish1356—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 71.8 (#141), Gemma 3 1B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Gemma 3 1B
IFEval84%—
LMArena Instruction Following1375—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 33.6 (#254), Gemma 3 1B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Gemma 3 1B
Fiction.LiveBench46.9%—
LMArena Longer Query1398—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 57.3 (#127), Gemma 3 1B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Gemma 3 1B
LMArena Text1351—
LMArena Creative Writing1345—
Short-Story Creative Writing81.4%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1483—
WildBench83.8%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1376—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4 better than Gemma 3 1B?

Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 20.7 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4 and Gemma 3 1B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4 has 58 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 1B has 4.

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