Claude Opus 4.5 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 Opus 4.5· Gemma 4 E2B

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Opus 4.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 E2B only becomes the better choice if you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

Claude Opus 4.5 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 76 to 39. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Claude Opus 4.5's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 67.6 against 19.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is BBH, 87% to 21.9%.

Gemma 4 E2B 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. Claude Opus 4.5 gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Gemma 4 E2B.

Operational tradeoffs

PricePricing unavailableFree*
Speed46 t/sN/A
TTFT1.01sN/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 Opus 4.5Gemma 4 E2B
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%
CodingClaude Opus 4.5 wins
HumanEval91%
SWE-bench Verified80.9%
LiveCodeBench57%44%
LiveCodeBench v684.8%
SWE-bench Pro57.1%
SWE Multilingual77.5%
NL2Repo43.2%
Multimodal & GroundedClaude Opus 4.5 wins
MMMU80.7%
MMMU-Pro70.6%44.2%
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%21.9%
LongBench v264.4%
MRCRv281%19.1%
AI-Needle74%
ARC-AGI-237.6%
KnowledgeClaude Opus 4.5 wins
MMLU90.8%
GPQA87%43.4%
SuperGPQA70.6%
MMLU-Pro89.5%60%
MMLU-Redux96.6%
C-Eval92.2%
HLE30.8%
FrontierScience84%
SimpleQA95%
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 E2B?

Claude Opus 4.5 is ahead overall, 76 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is BBH, where the scores are 87% and 21.9%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude Opus 4.5 or Gemma 4 E2B?

Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.2 versus 54.1. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Claude Opus 4.5 or Gemma 4 E2B?

Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 62.6 versus 44. 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 E2B?

Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 67.6 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 Opus 4.5 or Gemma 4 E2B?

Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 78 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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