Model comparison
Claude 3 Opus vs Gemma 2B
Claude 3 Opus and Gemma 2B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.5 vs 29.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 5 categories and Gemma 2B in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3 Opus leads 47.2 to 24.0.
- Gemma 2B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Opus | Gemma 2B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 29.6 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2024-02-21 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 46 | 23 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1264 | 1010 |
| HumanEval+ | 77.4% | 20.7% |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | 34.1% |
| WeirdML | 19.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.5% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Gemma 2B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Gemma 2B leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1245 | 989 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.91 | 94.2 |
| WinoGrande | 88.5% | 65.4% |
| SimpleBench | 23.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 40.6% | — |
| DTBench | 61.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| LMCA | 17% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 35.2% |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 71.4% |
| LiveBench | 49.2% | — |
| PIQA | — | 77.3% |
Math Gemma 2B leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1273 | 1009 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.7% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 43.6% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 37.5% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 17.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Gemma 2B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 84.6% | 42.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.2% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.6% | — |
| Confabulations | 22.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 42.1% |
| BoolQ | — | 69.4% |
| TriviaQA | — | 53.2% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Gemma 2B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1023 | — |
Multilingual Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1258 | 958 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1248 | 986 |
| LMArena Russian | 1280 | 937 |
| LMArena French | 1275 | — |
| LMArena German | 1258 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1246 | — |
Instruction Following Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | 970 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.9% | — |
Long Context Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1259 | 981 |
Writing & Preference Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1262 | 1002 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 987 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 945 |
| LiveBench Language | 50.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Opus better than Gemma 2B?
Claude 3 Opus and Gemma 2B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.5 vs 29.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Claude 3 Opus or Gemma 2B better for coding?
Claude 3 Opus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Gemma 2B share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2B has 23.