Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Gemma 7B

Claude 3 Sonnet and Gemma 7B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.8 vs 29.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

28.8

Rank #311 Confirmed

Gemma 7B Google

29.5

Rank #295 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 5 categories and Gemma 7B in 3 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 7B leads 28.7 to 10.0.
  • Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 Sonnet and Gemma 7B specifications
Claude 3 SonnetGemma 7B
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index28.829.5
Released2024-02-292024-02-21
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3027

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.2 (#296), Gemma 7B: 29.9 (#290)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 7B
LMArena Coding12231048
HumanEval+64%28.7%
MBPP+69.3%43.4%
WeirdML10.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Claude 3 Sonnet: 19.7 (#232), Gemma 7B: 19.0 (#247)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 7B
LMArena Hard Prompts11971042
Epoch Capabilities Index120.69111.74
WinoGrande75.1%79%
DTBench53.6%—
Adversarial NLI—48.7%
BIG-Bench Hard—55.1%
HellaSwag—82.2%
PIQA—81.2%

Math Gemma 7B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.0 (#305), Gemma 7B: 28.7 (#225)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 7B
LMArena Math12131066
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%—
MATH Level 518.2%—
GSM8K—46.4%

Knowledge Gemma 7B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#271), Gemma 7B: 26.8 (#248)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 7B
LMArena Expert11731002
MMLU75.9%66.1%
GPQA Diamond40.6%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—83.2%
OpenBookQA—78.6%
TriviaQA—72.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 24.7 (#120), Gemma 7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 7B
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 38.0 (#229), Gemma 7B: 25.3 (#282)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 7B
LMArena Non-English1205999
LMArena Chinese11881035
LMArena French12281024
LMArena Russian1227993
LMArena German1204—
LMArena Japanese1131—
LMArena Korean1128—
LMArena Spanish1204—

Instruction Following Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 63.1 (#230), Gemma 7B: 51.7 (#290)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 7B
LMArena Instruction Following12001017

Long Context Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#223), Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#277)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 7B
LMArena Longer Query12111022

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.3 (#233), Gemma 7B: 27.2 (#297)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemma 7B
LMArena Text12181056
LMArena Creative Writing11861024
LMArena Multi-Turn1227963

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Gemma 7B?

Claude 3 Sonnet and Gemma 7B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.8 vs 29.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Gemma 7B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (29.2 vs 29.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Gemma 7B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 7B has 27.

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