Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Gemma 3 4B

Claude 3 Sonnet and Gemma 3 4B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.8 vs 27.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

28.8

Rank #311 Confirmed

Gemma 3 4B Google

27.9

Rank #320 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 3 categories and Gemma 3 4B in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3 Sonnet leads 21.1 to 11.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 40.6% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 23.2% for Gemma 3 4B.
  • Gemma 3 4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetGemma 3 4B
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index28.827.9
Released2024-02-292025-03-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.04
Output $ / M tokens—$0.08
Results tracked3022

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 3 4B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.2 (#296), Gemma 3 4B: 35.3 (#214)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 3 4B
LMArena Coding12231230
WeirdML10.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: —, Gemma 3 4B: 20.7 (#134)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 3 4B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—19.6%

Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 19.7 (#232), Gemma 3 4B: 12.7 (#330)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 3 4B
LMArena Hard Prompts11971253
DTBench53.6%50.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.69116.02
Kagi LLM Benchmark—25.2%
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMCA—2.8%
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Gemma 3 4B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.0 (#305), Gemma 3 4B: 15.8 (#286)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 3 4B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%7.5%
LMArena Math12131239
MATH Level 518.2%—

Knowledge Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#271), Gemma 3 4B: 11.8 (#294)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 3 4B
GPQA Diamond40.6%23.2%
LMArena Expert11731223
Vectara Hallucination Rate—6.4%
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 24.7 (#120), Gemma 3 4B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 3 4B
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Gemma 3 4B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 38.0 (#229), Gemma 3 4B: 42.7 (#189)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 3 4B
LMArena Non-English12051273
LMArena German12041281
LMArena Russian12271294
LMArena Chinese1188—
LMArena French1228—
LMArena Japanese1131—
LMArena Korean1128—
LMArena Spanish1204—

Instruction Following Gemma 3 4B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 63.1 (#230), Gemma 3 4B: 65.4 (#219)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 3 4B
LMArena Instruction Following12001239

Long Context Gemma 3 4B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#223), Gemma 3 4B: 38.6 (#189)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 3 4B
LMArena Longer Query12111274

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.3 (#233), Gemma 3 4B: 42.2 (#234)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 3 4B
LMArena Text12181291
LMArena Creative Writing11861270
LMArena Multi-Turn12271255
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1068

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Gemma 3 4B?

Claude 3 Sonnet and Gemma 3 4B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.8 vs 27.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Gemma 3 4B better for coding?

Gemma 3 4B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.3 versus 29.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Gemma 3 4B share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 4B has 22.

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