# Claude Instant vs Gemma 2B

> Gemma 2B has enough public results to be ranked (#307); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-instant-vs-gemma-2b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 6

## Summary

- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 1 category and Gemma 2B in 0 categories, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
- Gemma 2B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Instant | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Google |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 29.6 |
| Rank | — | 307 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Instant: —
- Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | 20.7% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1010 |
| MBPP+ | — | 34.1% |

## Reasoning

- Claude Instant: 19.6
- Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | 94.2 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 989 |
| DTBench | 45.8% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 35.2% |
| HellaSwag | — | 71.4% |
| PIQA | — | 77.3% |
| WinoGrande | — | 65.4% |

## Math

- Claude Instant: —
- Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 86.7% | 17.7% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1009 |

## Knowledge

- Claude Instant: —
- Gemma 2B: —

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | 42.1% |
| MMLU | 73.4% | 42.3% |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | 53.2% |
| BoolQ | — | 69.4% |

## Multilingual

- Claude Instant: —
- Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 958 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 986 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 937 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Instant: —
- Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 970 |

## Long Context

- Claude Instant: —
- Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 981 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Instant: —
- Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1002 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 987 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 945 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Instant better than Gemma 2B?

Gemma 2B has enough public results to be ranked (#307); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2B has 23.