# Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Gemma 2B

> Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-sonnet-4-6-vs-gemma-2b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 12

## Summary

- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores higher in 7 categories and Gemma 2B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads 70.2 to 24.0.
- Gemma 2B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Google |
| Noometry Index | 50.3 | 29.6 |
| Rank | 50 | 307 |
| Context | 1M | — |
| Input $/M | $3 | — |
| Output $/M | $15 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.3 (#67)
- Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1504 | 1010 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 75.2% | — |
| DeepSWE | 29.9% | — |
| FrontierCode | 24.3% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1522 | — |
| SciCode | 46.8% | — |
| WeirdML | 66.1% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 1,327 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 20.7% |
| MBPP+ | — | 34.1% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 39.1 (#28)
- Gemma 2B: —

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 53.4% | — |
| APEX-Agents | 43% | — |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 9.3% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 54.9% | — |
| OSWorld | 72.1% | — |
| ExploitBench | 23.6% | — |
| GBAEval | 48.8% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 18% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1221 | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 7,204 | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.1 (#45)
- Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1484 | 989 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 152.24 | 94.2 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 60.4% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 80.9% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 86.5% | — |
| CritPt | 3.1% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 13% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | 76.3% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 16% | — |
| DTBench | 89.9% | — |
| LMCA | 46.5% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 35.2% |
| ForecastBench | 62 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 71.4% |
| PIQA | — | 77.3% |
| WinoGrande | — | 65.4% |

## Math

- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 52.9 (#49)
- Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1462 | 1009 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 85.8% | — |
| ProofBench | 45% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 32.4% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 8.3% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 17.7% |

## Knowledge

- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 51.7 (#65)
- Gemma 2B: —

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 87.4% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 35.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 10.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1500 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 42.1% |
| BoolQ | — | 69.4% |
| MMLU | — | 42.3% |
| TriviaQA | — | 53.2% |

## Multimodal

- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 38.0 (#68)
- Gemma 2B: —

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1283 | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 6.7% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1482 | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 54.4 (#41)
- Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1440 | 958 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1491 | 986 |
| LMArena Russian | 1440 | 937 |
| LMArena French | 1465 | — |
| LMArena German | 1428 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1420 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1411 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1464 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 77.4 (#25)
- Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1475 | 970 |

## Long Context

- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 45.3 (#44)
- Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1479 | 981 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 70.2 (#22)
- Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1458 | 1002 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1435 | 987 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1464 | 945 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1810 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1207 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 better than Gemma 2B?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Gemma 2B better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.3 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Gemma 2B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4.6 has 57 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2B has 23.