Head-to-head comparison across 4benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive)
85
Gemma 4 12B
53
Verified leaderboard positions: Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) #8 · Gemma 4 12B unranked
Pick Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 12B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
Coding
+0.9 difference
Reasoning
+32.4 difference
Knowledge
+9.6 difference
Multimodal
+4.8 difference
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive)
Gemma 4 12B
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Pick Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 12B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 85 to 53. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive)'s sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 75.8 against 43.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 94.2% to 78.8%. Gemma 4 12B does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for Gemma 4 12B.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 85 to 53. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 94.2% and 78.8%.
Gemma 4 12B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 77.8 versus 68.2. Inside this category, HLE w/o tools is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 72.9 versus 72. Gemma 4 12B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 75.8 versus 43.4. Gemma 4 12B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Gemma 4 12B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.1 versus 64.3. Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
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