Model comparison
Claude 3 Sonnet vs Gemma 3 1B
Claude 3 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 3 categories and Gemma 3 1B in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3 Sonnet leads 21.1 to 7.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 40.6% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 19.9% for Gemma 3 1B.
- Gemma 3 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemma 3 1B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 21.1 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2025-03-12 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 30 | 4 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Gemma 3 1B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemma 3 1B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 10.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: —, Gemma 3 1B: 13.7 (#152)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemma 3 1B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 7.2% |
Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Gemma 3 1B: 19.2 (#264)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemma 3 1B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | — |
| DTBench | 53.6% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.7 | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | — |
Math Too close to call
Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Gemma 3 1B: 10.2 (#316)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemma 3 1B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | 1.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1213 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | — |
Knowledge Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Gemma 3 1B: 7.0 (#314)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemma 3 1B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | 19.9% |
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | — |
| MMLU | 75.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Gemma 3 1B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemma 3 1B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Gemma 3 1B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemma 3 1B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1189 | — |
| LMArena French | 1229 | — |
| LMArena German | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Gemma 3 1B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemma 3 1B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Gemma 3 1B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemma 3 1B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Gemma 3 1B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemma 3 1B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Gemma 3 1B?
Claude 3 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Gemma 3 1B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 1B has 4.