Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Gemma 7B

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.2

Rank #20 Confirmed

Gemma 7B Google

30.0

Rank #299 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 73.5 to 27.1.
  • Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Gemma 7B specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Gemma 7B
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index58.230.0
Released2026-02-042024-02-21
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6827

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 7B
LMArena Coding15361048
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
LMArena WebDev1547—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—
HumanEval+—28.7%
MBPP+—43.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.1 (#4), Gemma 7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 7B
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
GBAEval44.1%—
LMArena Search1253—
METR Time Horizons78.9%—
Vending-Bench 28,018—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.8 (#23), Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 7B
LMArena Hard Prompts15271042
Epoch Capabilities Index155.24111.99
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
Chess Puzzles17%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—
Adversarial NLI—48.7%
BIG-Bench Hard—55.1%
ForecastBench60—
HellaSwag—82.2%
PIQA—81.2%
WinoGrande—79%

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 63.0 (#31), Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26), Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 7B
LMArena Expert15461001
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—83.2%
MMLU—66.1%
OpenBookQA—78.6%
TriviaQA—72.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), Gemma 7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 7B
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 7B
LMArena Non-English1489999
LMArena Chinese15511035
LMArena French15131025
LMArena Russian1497993
LMArena German1502—
LMArena Japanese1484—
LMArena Korean1464—
LMArena Spanish1510—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4), Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 7B
LMArena Instruction Following15231017

Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 7B
LMArena Longer Query15201022
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 7B
LMArena Text15031056
LMArena Creative Writing15051024
LMArena Multi-Turn1513963
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Gemma 7B?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Gemma 7B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.2 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Gemma 7B share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 7B has 27.

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