# Claude Sonnet 4 vs Gemma 2 9B

> Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-sonnet-4-vs-gemma-2-9b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 22

## Summary

- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher in 7 categories and Gemma 2 9B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Claude Sonnet 4 leads 43.3 to 9.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 71.1% for Claude Sonnet 4 and 0.6% for Gemma 2 9B.
- Gemma 2 9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Google |
| Noometry Index | 40.8 | 25.9 |
| Rank | 145 | 341 |
| Context | 200K | — |
| Input $/M | $3 | — |
| Output $/M | $15 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Sonnet 4: 43.5 (#88)
- Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1414 | 1173 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 64.9% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 61.3% | — |
| SciCode | 40% | — |
| GSO | 4.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 46.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 34.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 22.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 40.6% |
| ALE-Bench | 655.35 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude Sonnet 4: 38.5 (#31)
- Gemma 2 9B: —

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 33.1% | — |
| Cybench | 35% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 46.6% | — |
| OSWorld | 43.9% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 62% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude Sonnet 4: 22.9 (#187)
- Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1372 | 1171 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.69 | 119.83 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 5.9% | — |
| SimpleBench | 45.5% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 73% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 40% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 3.1% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 15.2% |
| DTBench | 77.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 36.4% |
| LMCA | 29% | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.2 | — |
| LiveBench | — | 28.7% |
| PIQA | — | 83.7% |

## Math

- Claude Sonnet 4: 43.3 (#80)
- Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 71.1% | 0.6% |
| LMArena Math | 1375 | 1183 |
| MATH Level 5 | 84.4% | 21% |
| Omni-MATH | 60.2% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 19.8% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 84.9% |

## Knowledge

- Claude Sonnet 4: 41.8 (#108)
- Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 79.2% | 27.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1372 | 1147 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 7.8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 84.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 13.2% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 10.3% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 70.6% | — |
| BoolQ | — | 85.7% |
| MMLU | — | 72.1% |

## Multimodal

- Claude Sonnet 4: 26.2 (#121)
- Gemma 2 9B: —

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1191 | — |
| GeoBench | 37% | — |
| VPCT | 34% | — |
| MindCube | 44.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Sonnet 4: 46.7 (#156)
- Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1333 | 1188 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1350 | 1185 |
| LMArena French | 1363 | 1190 |
| LMArena German | 1331 | 1186 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1302 | 1144 |
| LMArena Korean | 1291 | 1137 |
| LMArena Russian | 1355 | 1200 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1357 | 1200 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Sonnet 4: 71.7 (#145)
- Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1376 | 1178 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 52.6% |
| IFEval | 84% | — |

## Long Context

- Claude Sonnet 4: 33.7 (#259)
- Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1398 | 1197 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 46.9% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Sonnet 4: 57.1 (#132)
- Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1351 | 1207 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1345 | 1206 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1483 | 841 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1376 | 1193 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.4% | — |
| WildBench | 83.8% | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 25.5% |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Sonnet 4 better than Gemma 2 9B?

Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude Sonnet 4 or Gemma 2 9B better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.5 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4 and Gemma 2 9B share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4 has 58 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 9B has 35.