Model comparison

Gemma 7B vs Sonar

Sonar is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

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Gemma 7B Google

29.5

Rank #295 Confirmed

Sonar Perplexity

37.8

Rank #184 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Sonar leads 52.6 to 27.2.
  • Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 7B and Sonar specifications
Gemma 7BSonar
ProviderGooglePerplexity
Noometry Index29.537.8
Released2024-02-212024-01-01
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$1
Output $ / M tokens—$1
Results tracked277

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Category by category

Coding Sonar leads

Gemma 7B: 29.9 (#290), Sonar: 35.1 (#217)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BSonar
LiveBench Coding—35.1%
LMArena Coding1048—
HumanEval+28.7%—
MBPP+43.4%—

Reasoning Sonar leads

Gemma 7B: 19.0 (#247), Sonar: 20.3 (#221)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BSonar
LiveBench Reasoning—46.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts1042—
LiveBench Data Analysis—37.9%
Adversarial NLI48.7%—
BIG-Bench Hard55.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index111.74—
HellaSwag82.2%—
LiveBench—46.9%
PIQA81.2%—
WinoGrande79%—

Math Sonar leads

Gemma 7B: 28.7 (#225), Sonar: 31.3 (#197)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BSonar
LiveBench Math—41.6%
LMArena Math1066—
GSM8K46.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemma 7B: 26.8 (#248), Sonar: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BSonar
LMArena Expert1002—
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.3%—
BoolQ83.2%—
MMLU66.1%—
OpenBookQA78.6%—
TriviaQA72.3%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 7B: 25.3 (#282), Sonar: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BSonar
LMArena Non-English999—
LMArena Chinese1035—
LMArena French1024—
LMArena Russian993—

Instruction Following Sonar leads

Gemma 7B: 51.7 (#290), Sonar: 71.5 (#146)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BSonar
LiveBench Instruction Following—76.2%
LMArena Instruction Following1017—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#277), Sonar: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BSonar
LMArena Longer Query1022—

Writing & Preference Sonar leads

Gemma 7B: 27.2 (#297), Sonar: 52.6 (#166)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 7BSonar
LMArena Text1056—
LMArena Creative Writing1024—
LMArena Multi-Turn963—
LiveBench Language—44.1%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 7B better than Sonar?

Sonar is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 7B or Sonar better for coding?

Sonar scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.1 versus 29.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and Sonar share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Sonar has 7.

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