# Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Gemma 2B

> Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-7-sonnet-vs-gemma-2b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 12

## Summary

- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 6 categories and Gemma 2B in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 54.4 to 24.0.
- Gemma 2B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Google |
| Noometry Index | 39.5 | 29.6 |
| Rank | 164 | 307 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136)
- Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1361 | 1010 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 61% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 52.8% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 64.9% | — |
| GSO | 3.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 74.5% | — |
| CadEval | 54% | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 20.7% |
| MBPP+ | — | 34.1% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50)
- Gemma 2B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 30.9% | — |
| Cybench | 20% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 43.6% | — |
| OSWorld | 35.8% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 60% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277)
- Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | 989 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.16 | 94.2 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.9% | — |
| SimpleBench | 46.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 28.6% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 4.2% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 87.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 74% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 35.2% |
| ForecastBench | 61.8 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 71.4% |
| LiveBench | 76.1% | — |
| PIQA | — | 77.3% |
| WinoGrande | — | 65.4% |

## Math

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153)
- Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1337 | 1009 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 33% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 79% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 91.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.1% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 17.7% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130)
- Gemma 2B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 79.7% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 60.8% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1321 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 42.1% |
| BoolQ | — | 69.4% |
| MMLU | — | 42.3% |
| TriviaQA | — | 53.2% |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95)
- Gemma 2B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1169 | — |
| GeoBench | 68% | — |
| VPCT | 39% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 33.9% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179)
- Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1296 | 958 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1299 | 986 |
| LMArena Russian | 1311 | 937 |
| LMArena French | 1303 | — |
| LMArena German | 1301 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1267 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1249 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1298 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125)
- Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1352 | 970 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.3% | — |
| IFEval | 83.4% | — |

## Long Context

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10)
- Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1373 | 981 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 83.3% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150)
- Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1314 | 1002 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1332 | 987 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 945 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.1% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1412 | — |
| WildBench | 81.4% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 59.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Gemma 2B?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Gemma 2B better for coding?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.6 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Gemma 2B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2B has 23.