Claude 3 Opus vs Gemma 4
Anthropic Claude 3 Opus | Google Gemma 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | |
| Release date | Mar 4 2024 | Apr 2 2026 |
| Access | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Benchmarks | ||
Coding SWE-Bench VerifiedReal coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | 33% | — |
Science GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | 50.4% | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Claude 3 Opus shipped 759 days before Gemma 4 | |
Which is better: Claude 3 Opus or Gemma 4?
Claude 3 Opus and Gemma 4 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Claude 3 Opus shipped 759 days before Gemma 4, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Claude 3 Opus is proprietary, while Gemma 4 is open weight.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude 3 Opus and Gemma 4 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.
Frequently asked questions
Claude 3 Opus was released by Anthropic on Mar 4 2024.
Gemma 4 was released by Google on Apr 2 2026.
Claude 3 Opus is a proprietary model released by Anthropic. Gemma 4 is an open weight model released by Google.
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