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Claude 3 Sonnet vs Gemma 2 27B

Claude 3 Sonnet and Gemma 2 27B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.8 vs 29.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

28.8

Rank #311 Confirmed

Gemma 2 27B Google

29.2

Rank #302 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 4 categories and Gemma 2 27B in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude 3 Sonnet leads 19.7 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 18.2% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 27.9% for Gemma 2 27B.
  • Gemma 2 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetGemma 2 27B
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index28.829.2
Released2024-02-292024-06-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—8K
Max output—2K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.65
Output $ / M tokens—$0.65
Results tracked3034

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 2 27B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.2 (#296), Gemma 2 27B: 33.5 (#243)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 2 27B
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%42.8%
LMArena Coding12231211
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%52.5%
WeirdML10.2%—
LiveBench Coding—36%
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 19.7 (#232), Gemma 2 27B: 14.8 (#313)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 2 27B
LMArena Hard Prompts11971199
DTBench53.6%48%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.69122.06
LiveBench Reasoning—28.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis—47.9%
LMCA—7.1%
LiveBench—38.2%
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Too close to call

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.0 (#305), Gemma 2 27B: 10.0 (#306)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 2 27B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%1.4%
LMArena Math12131212
MATH Level 518.2%27.9%
LiveBench Math—26.5%

Knowledge Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#271), Gemma 2 27B: 18.9 (#275)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 2 27B
GPQA Diamond40.6%36.5%
LMArena Expert11731172
MMLU75.9%75.7%
Confabulations—27.1%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 24.7 (#120), Gemma 2 27B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 2 27B
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Too close to call

Claude 3 Sonnet: 38.0 (#229), Gemma 2 27B: 38.8 (#221)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 2 27B
LMArena Non-English12051217
LMArena Chinese11881221
LMArena French12281246
LMArena German12041209
LMArena Japanese11311175
LMArena Korean11281174
LMArena Russian12271234
LMArena Spanish12041228

Instruction Following Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 63.1 (#230), Gemma 2 27B: 60.7 (#244)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 2 27B
LMArena Instruction Following12001206
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.1%

Long Context Too close to call

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#223), Gemma 2 27B: 37.3 (#213)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 2 27B
LMArena Longer Query12111231

Writing & Preference Gemma 2 27B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.3 (#233), Gemma 2 27B: 44.4 (#220)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 2 27B
LMArena Text12181231
LMArena Creative Writing11861241
LMArena Multi-Turn12271224
LiveBench Language—32.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Gemma 2 27B?

Claude 3 Sonnet and Gemma 2 27B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.8 vs 29.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Gemma 2 27B better for coding?

Gemma 2 27B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.5 versus 29.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Gemma 2 27B share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 27B has 34.

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