Claude Haiku 4.5 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 Haiku 4.5· Gemma 4 E4B

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Haiku 4.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 E4B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.

Claude Haiku 4.5 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 63 to 47. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Claude Haiku 4.5's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 68.9 against 25.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is BBH, 81% to 33.1%. Gemma 4 E4B does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Claude Haiku 4.5 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.80 input / $4.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Gemma 4 E4B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Gemma 4 E4B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Claude Haiku 4.5 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 Haiku 4.5 gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Gemma 4 E4B.

Operational tradeoffs

Price$0.80 / $4.00Free*
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 Haiku 4.5Gemma 4 E4B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.041%
BrowseComp62%
OSWorld-Verified57%
CodingGemma 4 E4B wins
HumanEval60%
SWE-bench Verified73.3%
LiveCodeBench36%52%
SWE-bench Pro46%
FLTEval23%
Multimodal & GroundedClaude Haiku 4.5 wins
MMMU-Pro82%52.6%
OfficeQA Pro74%
ReasoningClaude Haiku 4.5 wins
MuSR63%
BBH81%33.1%
LongBench v272%
MRCRv270%25.4%
KnowledgeGemma 4 E4B wins
MMLU68%
GPQA67%58.6%
SuperGPQA65%
MMLU-Pro73%69.4%
HLE11%
FrontierScience64%
SimpleQA65%
Instruction Following
IFEval86%
Multilingual
MGSM82%
MMLU-ProX79%
Mathematics
AIME 202368%
AIME 202470%
AIME 202569%
HMMT Feb 202364%
HMMT Feb 202466%
HMMT Feb 202565%
BRUMO 202567%
MATH-50081%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Gemma 4 E4B?

Claude Haiku 4.5 is ahead overall, 63 to 47. The biggest single separator in this matchup is BBH, where the scores are 81% and 33.1%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Gemma 4 E4B?

Gemma 4 E4B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 65.6 versus 54.4. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Gemma 4 E4B?

Gemma 4 E4B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 52 versus 48.5. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Gemma 4 E4B?

Claude Haiku 4.5 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 68.9 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 Haiku 4.5 or Gemma 4 E4B?

Claude Haiku 4.5 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.4 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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