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.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic

60.5

Rank #10 Confirmed

Gemma 7B Google

29.5

Rank #295 Confirmed

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 and Gemma 7B specifications
Claude Sonnet 5.5Gemma 7B
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index60.529.5
Released2026-09-282024-02-21
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked1627

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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)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Gemma 7B
FrontierCode52.1%—
CursorBench55.5%—
LMArena WebDev1699—
FrontierSWE61.9%—
SciCode61%—
LMArena Coding—1048
ALE-Bench1,819—
HumanEval+—28.7%
MBPP+—43.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 44.9 (#14), Gemma 7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Gemma 7B
APEX-Agents75.5%—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 52.4 (#29), Gemma 7B: 19.0 (#247)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Gemma 7B
CritPt31.4%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1042
Mystery Game Puzzles65%—
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)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Gemma 7B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)88.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 480.5%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench100%—
LMArena Math—1066
GSM8K—46.4%

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#11), Gemma 7B: 26.8 (#248)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Gemma 7B
GPQA Diamond95.6%—
SimpleQA Verified46.5%—
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: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Gemma 7B
Furniture Assembly75%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: —, Gemma 7B: 25.3 (#282)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Gemma 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)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Gemma 7B
LMArena Instruction Following—1017

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: —, Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#277)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Gemma 7B
LMArena Longer Query—1022

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: —, Gemma 7B: 27.2 (#297)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Gemma 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.

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