Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive)
90
Gemma 4 31B
66
Verified leaderboard positions: Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) #5 · Gemma 4 31B unranked
Pick Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 31B only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.
Coding
+31.3 difference
Knowledge
+6.9 difference
Multimodal
+12.6 difference
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive)
Gemma 4 31B
$5 / $25
$0 / $0
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
1M
256K
Pick Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 31B only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 90 to 66. 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 coding, where it averages 72.9 against 41.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HLE, 54.7% to 26.5%. Gemma 4 31B does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) is also the more expensive model on tokens at $5.00 input / $25.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Gemma 4 31B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for Gemma 4 31B.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 90 to 66. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HLE, where the scores are 54.7% and 26.5%.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 68.2 versus 61.3. Inside this category, HLE 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 41.6. Gemma 4 31B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Gemma 4 31B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.9 versus 64.3. Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Estimates at 50,000 req/day · 1000 tokens/req average.
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