Claude 3 Haiku vs Gemma 4 E2B

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

Claude 3 Haiku· Gemma 4 E2B

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude 3 Haiku if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 E2B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

Claude 3 Haiku is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 43 to 39. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Claude 3 Haiku's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 60.1 against 19.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is BBH, 74% to 21.9%. Gemma 4 E2B does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Gemma 4 E2B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Claude 3 Haiku is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Claude 3 Haiku gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Gemma 4 E2B.

Operational tradeoffs

PricePricing unavailableFree*
Speed138 t/sN/A
TTFT1.16sN/A
Context200K128K

Decision framing

BenchLM keeps the benchmark table and the operator tradeoffs on the same page so a better score does not hide a materially slower, pricier, or smaller-context model.

Runtime metrics show N/A when BenchLM does not have a sourced snapshot for that exact model. The scoring rules and freshness policy are documented on the methodology page.

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuGemma 4 E2B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.040%
BrowseComp53%
OSWorld-Verified42%
CodingGemma 4 E2B wins
HumanEval73%
SWE-bench Verified17%
LiveCodeBench20%44%
SWE-bench Pro19%
Multimodal & GroundedClaude 3 Haiku wins
MMMU-Pro70%44.2%
OfficeQA Pro67%
ReasoningClaude 3 Haiku wins
MuSR52%
BBH74%21.9%
LongBench v263%
MRCRv263%19.1%
KnowledgeGemma 4 E2B wins
MMLU75.2%
GPQA56%43.4%
SuperGPQA54%
MMLU-Pro63%60%
HLE2%
FrontierScience50%
SimpleQA54%
Instruction Following
IFEval76%
Multilingual
MGSM73%
MMLU-ProX70%
Mathematics
AIME 202356%
AIME 202458%
AIME 202557%
HMMT Feb 202352%
HMMT Feb 202454%
HMMT Feb 202553%
BRUMO 202555%
MATH-50071%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Claude 3 Haiku or Gemma 4 E2B?

Claude 3 Haiku is ahead overall, 43 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is BBH, where the scores are 74% and 21.9%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude 3 Haiku or Gemma 4 E2B?

Gemma 4 E2B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 54.1 versus 43.5. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Claude 3 Haiku or Gemma 4 E2B?

Gemma 4 E2B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44 versus 18.9. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Claude 3 Haiku or Gemma 4 E2B?

Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 60.1 versus 19.1. Inside this category, BBH is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Claude 3 Haiku or Gemma 4 E2B?

Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 68.7 versus 44.2. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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