Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Claude 4 Sonnet
62
Winner · 4/8 categoriesGemma 4 E2B
~39
0/8 categoriesClaude 4 Sonnet· Gemma 4 E2B
Pick Claude 4 Sonnet if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 E2B only becomes the better choice if you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.
Claude 4 Sonnet is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 62 to 39. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Claude 4 Sonnet's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 70.8 against 19.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is BBH, 82% to 21.9%.
Gemma 4 E2B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Claude 4 Sonnet 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 4 Sonnet gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Gemma 4 E2B.
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| Benchmark | Claude 4 Sonnet | Gemma 4 E2B |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 56% | — |
| BrowseComp | 62% | — |
| OSWorld-Verified | 57% | — |
| CodingClaude 4 Sonnet wins | ||
| HumanEval | 65% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified | 72.7% | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 36% | 44% |
| SWE-bench Pro | 48% | — |
| Multimodal & GroundedClaude 4 Sonnet wins | ||
| MMMU-Pro | 81% | 44.2% |
| OfficeQA Pro | 78% | — |
| ReasoningClaude 4 Sonnet wins | ||
| MuSR | 69% | — |
| BBH | 82% | 21.9% |
| LongBench v2 | 71% | — |
| MRCRv2 | 72% | 19.1% |
| KnowledgeClaude 4 Sonnet wins | ||
| MMLU | 86.5% | — |
| GPQA | 73% | 43.4% |
| SuperGPQA | 71% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 75% | 60% |
| HLE | 12% | — |
| FrontierScience | 67% | — |
| SimpleQA | 71% | — |
| Instruction Following | ||
| IFEval | 83% | — |
| Multilingual | ||
| MGSM | 84% | — |
| MMLU-ProX | 81% | — |
| Mathematics | ||
| AIME 2023 | 73% | — |
| AIME 2024 | 75% | — |
| AIME 2025 | 74% | — |
| HMMT Feb 2023 | 69% | — |
| HMMT Feb 2024 | 71% | — |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 70% | — |
| BRUMO 2025 | 72% | — |
| MATH-500 | 81% | — |
Claude 4 Sonnet is ahead overall, 62 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is BBH, where the scores are 82% and 21.9%.
Claude 4 Sonnet has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.8 versus 54.1. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude 4 Sonnet has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 49.1 versus 44. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude 4 Sonnet has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 70.8 versus 19.1. Inside this category, BBH is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude 4 Sonnet has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.7 versus 44.2. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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