Claude 3 Opus vs Gemma 4 E4B

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 Opus· Gemma 4 E4B

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude 3 Opus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 E4B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

Claude 3 Opus has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 49 versus 47. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Claude 3 Opus's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 61 against 25.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is BBH, 74% to 33.1%. Gemma 4 E4B does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Gemma 4 E4B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Claude 3 Opus 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 Opus gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Gemma 4 E4B.

Operational tradeoffs

PricePricing unavailableFree*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/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 OpusGemma 4 E4B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.044%
BrowseComp56%
OSWorld-Verified47%
CodingGemma 4 E4B wins
HumanEval84.9%
SWE-bench Verified10%
LiveCodeBench20%52%
SWE-bench Pro20%
Multimodal & GroundedClaude 3 Opus wins
MMMU-Pro73%52.6%
OfficeQA Pro67%
ReasoningClaude 3 Opus wins
MuSR57%
BBH74%33.1%
LongBench v262%
MRCRv263%25.4%
KnowledgeGemma 4 E4B wins
MMLU86.8%
GPQA61%58.6%
SuperGPQA59%
MMLU-Pro62%69.4%
HLE1%
FrontierScience56%
SimpleQA59%
Instruction Following
IFEval77%
Multilingual
MGSM73%
MMLU-ProX68%
Mathematics
AIME 202361%
AIME 202463%
AIME 202562%
HMMT Feb 202357%
HMMT Feb 202459%
HMMT Feb 202558%
BRUMO 202560%
MATH-50073%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Claude 3 Opus or Gemma 4 E4B?

Claude 3 Opus is ahead overall, 49 to 47. The biggest single separator in this matchup is BBH, where the scores are 74% and 33.1%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude 3 Opus or Gemma 4 E4B?

Gemma 4 E4B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 65.6 versus 46. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Claude 3 Opus or Gemma 4 E4B?

Gemma 4 E4B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 52 versus 17.7. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Claude 3 Opus or Gemma 4 E4B?

Claude 3 Opus has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 61 versus 25.4. Inside this category, BBH is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Claude 3 Opus or Gemma 4 E4B?

Claude 3 Opus has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.3 versus 52.6. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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