# Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Gemma 2B

> Claude Haiku 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-haiku-4-5-vs-gemma-2b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 12

## Summary

- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Haiku 4.5 scores higher in 6 categories and Gemma 2B in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Haiku 4.5 leads 58.1 to 24.1.
- Gemma 2B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Google |
| Noometry Index | 39.3 | 29.1 |
| Rank | 155 | 305 |
| Context | 200K | — |
| Input $/M | $1 | — |
| Output $/M | $5 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Haiku 4.5: 43.9 (#71)
- Gemma 2B: 28.9 (#300)

| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1454 | 1010 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 66.6% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1330 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 64.7% | — |
| SciCode | 43.3% | — |
| WeirdML | 45.4% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 653.48 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 20.7% |
| MBPP+ | — | 34.1% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude Haiku 4.5: 33.5 (#50)
- Gemma 2B: —

| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 35.5% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 68.7% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 45.5% | — |
| BALROG | 31.2% | — |
| ExploitBench | 13.7% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 458.89 | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude Haiku 4.5: 15.1 (#310)
- Gemma 2B: 17.9 (#275)

| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1420 | 989 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 142.42 | 93.57 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 4% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 14.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 47.7% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 8% | — |
| DTBench | 73.6% | — |
| LMCA | 30.9% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 35.2% |
| ForecastBench | 61.4 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 71.4% |
| PIQA | — | 77.3% |
| WinoGrande | — | 65.4% |

## Math

- Claude Haiku 4.5: 43.0 (#69)
- Gemma 2B: 27.6 (#237)

| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1395 | 1009 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 66.7% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 56.1% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 96.4% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 5.9% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 2.1% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 17.7% |

## Knowledge

- Claude Haiku 4.5: 37.6 (#146)
- Gemma 2B: —

| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 71.2% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 13.2% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.7% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 60.5% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1443 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 42.1% |
| BoolQ | — | 69.4% |
| MMLU | — | 42.3% |
| TriviaQA | — | 53.2% |

## Multimodal

- Claude Haiku 4.5: 27.0 (#111)
- Gemma 2B: —

| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 0% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1420 | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Haiku 4.5: 50.1 (#124)
- Gemma 2B: 23.1 (#289)

| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1376 | 958 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1415 | 986 |
| LMArena Russian | 1380 | 937 |
| LMArena French | 1408 | — |
| LMArena German | 1377 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1339 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1346 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1420 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Haiku 4.5: 71.6 (#144)
- Gemma 2B: 48.8 (#297)

| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1414 | 971 |
| IFEval | 80.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Claude Haiku 4.5: 43.6 (#86)
- Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#286)

| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1427 | 981 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Haiku 4.5: 58.1 (#119)
- Gemma 2B: 24.1 (#303)

| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1396 | 1002 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1371 | 986 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1409 | 945 |
| WildBench | 83.9% | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1064 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Haiku 4.5 better than Gemma 2B?

Claude Haiku 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude Haiku 4.5 or Gemma 2B better for coding?

Claude Haiku 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.9 versus 28.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Haiku 4.5 and Gemma 2B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Haiku 4.5 has 53 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2B has 23.