Claude Opus 4.5 vs Gemma 4 31B

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 Opus 4.5· Gemma 4 31B

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Opus 4.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 31B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you need the larger 256K context window.

Claude Opus 4.5 has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 76 versus 73. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Claude Opus 4.5's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 73.2 against 61.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 57% to 80%. Gemma 4 31B does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Gemma 4 31B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Claude Opus 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. Gemma 4 31B gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 200K for Claude Opus 4.5.

Operational tradeoffs

PricePricing unavailableFree*
Speed46 t/sN/A
TTFT1.01sN/A
Context200K256K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemma 4 31B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.059.3%
BrowseComp73%
OSWorld-Verified66.3%
OSWorld66.3%
Claw-Eval59.6%
QwenClawBench52.3%
QwenWebBench1518
TAU3-Bench70.2%
VITA-Bench23.3%
DeepPlanning26.4%
Toolathlon43.5%
MCP Atlas42.3%
MCP-Tasks71.8%
WideResearch76.4%
CodingGemma 4 31B wins
HumanEval91%
SWE-bench Verified80.9%
LiveCodeBench57%80%
LiveCodeBench v684.8%
SWE-bench Pro57.1%
SWE Multilingual77.5%
NL2Repo43.2%
Multimodal & GroundedClaude Opus 4.5 wins
MMMU80.7%
MMMU-Pro70.6%76.9%
OfficeQA Pro87%
RealWorldQA77.0%
OmniDocBench 1.587.7%
Video-MME (with subtitle)77.6%
Video-MME (w/o subtitle)81.4%
MathVision74.3%
We-Math70.0%
DynaMath79.7%
MStar73.2%
SimpleVQA65.7%
ChatCVQA68.5%
CountBench90.6%
AI2D_TEST87.7%
ERQA46.8%
VideoMMMU84.4%
MLVU (M-Avg)81.7%
ScreenSpot Pro45.7%
ReasoningClaude Opus 4.5 wins
MuSR93%
BBH87%74.4%
LongBench v264.4%
MRCRv281%66.4%
AI-Needle74%
ARC-AGI-237.6%
KnowledgeClaude Opus 4.5 wins
MMLU90.8%
GPQA87%84.3%
SuperGPQA70.6%
MMLU-Pro89.5%85.2%
MMLU-Redux96.6%
C-Eval92.2%
HLE30.8%26.5%
FrontierScience84%
SimpleQA95%
HLE w/o tools19.5%
Instruction Following
IFEval90.9%
IFBench58.0%
Multilingual
MGSM90%
MMLU-ProX85.7%
NOVA-6356.7%
INCLUDE86.2%
PolyMath79.0%
VWT2k-lite79.7%
MAXIFE79.2%
Mathematics
AIME 202399%
AIME 202499%
AIME 202598%
AIME2695.1%
HMMT Feb 202395%
HMMT Feb 202497%
HMMT Feb 202596%
HMMT Feb 202592.9%
HMMT Nov 202593.3%
HMMT Feb 202685.3%
MMAnswerBench84.0%
BRUMO 202596%
MATH-50089%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Claude Opus 4.5 or Gemma 4 31B?

Claude Opus 4.5 is ahead overall, 76 to 73. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 57% and 80%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude Opus 4.5 or Gemma 4 31B?

Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.2 versus 61.3. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Claude Opus 4.5 or Gemma 4 31B?

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 62.6. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Claude Opus 4.5 or Gemma 4 31B?

Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 67.6 versus 66.4. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Claude Opus 4.5 or Gemma 4 31B?

Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 78 versus 76.9. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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