Model comparison
Claude Sonnet 4 vs Gemma 7B
Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Sonnet 4 leads 57.3 to 27.2.
- Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemma 7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 40.6 | 29.5 |
| Released | 2025-05-22 | 2024-02-21 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 200K | — |
| Max output | 64K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $3 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $15 | — |
| Results tracked | 58 | 27 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 44.0 (#70), Gemma 7B: 29.9 (#290)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1414 | 1048 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 64.9% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 61.3% | — |
| SciCode | 40% | — |
| GSO | 4.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 46.1% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 655.35 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 28.7% |
| MBPP+ | — | 43.4% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 4: 38.3 (#29), Gemma 7B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 33.1% | — |
| Cybench | 35% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 46.6% | — |
| OSWorld | 43.9% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 62% | — |
Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 23.0 (#169), Gemma 7B: 19.0 (#247)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1372 | 1042 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.69 | 111.74 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 5.9% | — |
| SimpleBench | 45.5% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 73% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 40% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 3.1% | — |
| DTBench | 77.1% | — |
| LMCA | 29% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 48.7% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 55.1% |
| ForecastBench | 60.2 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 82.2% |
| PIQA | — | 81.2% |
| WinoGrande | — | 79% |
Math Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 41.5 (#71), Gemma 7B: 28.7 (#225)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1375 | 1066 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 71.1% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 60.2% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 84.4% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 46.4% |
Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 41.6 (#99), Gemma 7B: 26.8 (#248)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1371 | 1002 |
| GPQA Diamond | 79.2% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 7.8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 84.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 13.2% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 10.3% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 70.6% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.3% |
| BoolQ | — | 83.2% |
| MMLU | — | 66.1% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 78.6% |
| TriviaQA | — | 72.3% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 4: 25.6 (#116), Gemma 7B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1191 | — |
| GeoBench | 37% | — |
| VPCT | 34% | — |
| MindCube | 44.8% | — |
Multilingual Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 46.9 (#151), Gemma 7B: 25.3 (#282)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1333 | 999 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1351 | 1035 |
| LMArena French | 1364 | 1024 |
| LMArena Russian | 1355 | 993 |
| LMArena German | 1331 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1301 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1293 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1356 | — |
Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 71.8 (#141), Gemma 7B: 51.7 (#290)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1375 | 1017 |
| IFEval | 84% | — |
Long Context Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 33.6 (#254), Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#277)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1398 | 1022 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 46.9% | — |
Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 57.3 (#127), Gemma 7B: 27.2 (#297)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1351 | 1056 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1345 | 1024 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1376 | 963 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.4% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1483 | — |
| WildBench | 83.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Sonnet 4 better than Gemma 7B?
Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude Sonnet 4 or Gemma 7B better for coding?
Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 29.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4 and Gemma 7B share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4 has 58 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 7B has 27.