Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Gemma 7B

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.9 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic

61.9

Rank #10 Confirmed

Gemma 7B Google

30.0

Rank #299 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads 87.9 to 31.2.
  • Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 5.5Gemma 7B
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index61.930.0
Released2026-09-282024-02-21
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked3227

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 67.3 (#6), Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Gemma 7B
LMArena Coding15131048
FrontierCode52.1%—
CursorBench55.5%—
LMArena WebDev1774—
FrontierSWE61.9%—
SciCode61%—
ALE-Bench1,819—
HumanEval+—28.7%
MBPP+—43.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 45.0 (#16), Gemma 7B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Gemma 7B
APEX-Agents75.5%—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 54.0 (#28), Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Gemma 7B
LMArena Hard Prompts14951042
Epoch Capabilities Index165.03111.99
NYT Connections (extended)80.5%—
CritPt31.4%—
Mystery Game Puzzles65%—
Adversarial NLI—48.7%
BIG-Bench Hard—55.1%
HellaSwag—82.2%
PIQA—81.2%
WinoGrande—79%

Math Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 87.9 (#6), Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Gemma 7B
LMArena Math15101066
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)88.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 480.5%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench100%—
FrontierMath Erdős2.9%—
GSM8K—46.4%

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#12), Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Gemma 7B
LMArena Expert15401001
GPQA Diamond95.6%—
SimpleQA Verified46.5%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—83.2%
MMLU—66.1%
OpenBookQA—78.6%
TriviaQA—72.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 51.5 (#6), Gemma 7B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Gemma 7B
LMArena Vision1289—
Furniture Assembly75%—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 55.3 (#30), Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Gemma 7B
LMArena Non-English1452999
LMArena Chinese15221035
LMArena Russian1451993
LMArena French—1025

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 78.3 (#11), Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Gemma 7B
LMArena Instruction Following14951017

Long Context Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 45.9 (#28), Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Gemma 7B
LMArena Longer Query14981022

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#40), Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Gemma 7B
LMArena Text14711056
LMArena Creative Writing14651024
LMArena Multi-Turn1474963

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 better than Gemma 7B?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.9 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 or Gemma 7B better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.3 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Gemma 7B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5.5 has 32 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 7B has 27.

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