# Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Gemma 7B

> Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.1 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-sonnet-4-6-vs-gemma-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 14

## Summary

- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads 70.4 to 27.2.
- Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Google |
| Noometry Index | 50.1 | 29.5 |
| Rank | 42 | 295 |
| Context | 1M | — |
| Input $/M | $3 | — |
| Output $/M | $15 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.0 (#62)
- Gemma 7B: 29.9 (#290)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1504 | 1048 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 75.2% | — |
| DeepSWE | 29.9% | — |
| FrontierCode | 24.3% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1521 | — |
| SciCode | 46.8% | — |
| WeirdML | 66.1% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 1,327 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 28.7% |
| MBPP+ | — | 43.4% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 39.1 (#26)
- Gemma 7B: —

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| 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 (#40)
- Gemma 7B: 19.0 (#247)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1485 | 1042 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 152.25 | 111.74 |
| 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% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 48.7% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 55.1% |
| ForecastBench | 62 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 82.2% |
| PIQA | — | 81.2% |
| WinoGrande | — | 79% |

## Math

- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 51.9 (#41)
- Gemma 7B: 28.7 (#225)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1463 | 1066 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 85.8% | — |
| ProofBench | 45% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 32.4% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 8.3% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 46.4% |

## Knowledge

- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 51.6 (#60)
- Gemma 7B: 26.8 (#248)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1500 | 1002 |
| GPQA Diamond | 87.4% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 35.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 10.6% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.3% |
| BoolQ | — | 83.2% |
| MMLU | — | 66.1% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 78.6% |
| TriviaQA | — | 72.3% |

## Multimodal

- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 38.0 (#61)
- Gemma 7B: —

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1283 | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 6.7% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1482 | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 54.6 (#39)
- Gemma 7B: 25.3 (#282)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1440 | 999 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1491 | 1035 |
| LMArena French | 1465 | 1024 |
| LMArena Russian | 1440 | 993 |
| LMArena German | 1428 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1419 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1411 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1465 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 77.6 (#23)
- Gemma 7B: 51.7 (#290)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1476 | 1017 |

## Long Context

- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 45.3 (#40)
- Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#277)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1479 | 1022 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Sonnet 4.6: 70.4 (#22)
- Gemma 7B: 27.2 (#297)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1458 | 1056 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1435 | 1024 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1464 | 963 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1810 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1207 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 better than Gemma 7B?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.1 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Gemma 7B better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.0 versus 29.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Gemma 7B share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4.6 has 57 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 7B has 27.