Model comparison
Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Gemma 7B
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.5 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- The widest gap is in math, where Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads 88.7 to 28.7.
- Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemma 7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 60.5 | 29.5 |
| Released | 2026-09-28 | 2024-02-21 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1M | — |
| Max output | 128K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | — |
| Results tracked | 16 | 27 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 65.5 (#6), Gemma 7B: 29.9 (#290)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode | 52.1% | — |
| CursorBench | 55.5% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1699 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 61.9% | — |
| SciCode | 61% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1048 |
| ALE-Bench | 1,819 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 28.7% |
| MBPP+ | — | 43.4% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 44.9 (#14), Gemma 7B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 75.5% | — |
Reasoning Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 52.4 (#29), Gemma 7B: 19.0 (#247)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 31.4% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1042 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 65% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 48.7% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 55.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 111.74 |
| HellaSwag | — | 82.2% |
| PIQA | — | 81.2% |
| WinoGrande | — | 79% |
Math Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 88.7 (#4), Gemma 7B: 28.7 (#225)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 88.8% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 80.5% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 100% | — |
| ProofBench | 100% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1066 |
| GSM8K | — | 46.4% |
Knowledge Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#11), Gemma 7B: 26.8 (#248)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 95.6% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 46.5% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1002 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.3% |
| BoolQ | — | 83.2% |
| MMLU | — | 66.1% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 78.6% |
| TriviaQA | — | 72.3% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 53.2 (#5), Gemma 7B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Furniture Assembly | 75% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: —, Gemma 7B: 25.3 (#282)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 999 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1035 |
| LMArena French | — | 1024 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 993 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: —, Gemma 7B: 51.7 (#290)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1017 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: —, Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#277)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1022 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: —, Gemma 7B: 27.2 (#297)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemma 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1056 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1024 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 963 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 better than Gemma 7B?
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.5 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 or Gemma 7B better for coding?
Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 65.5 versus 29.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Gemma 7B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5.5 has 16 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 7B has 27.